Abstract :
This article describes the foundations, development
and some of the findings from a research
project about how the use of ‘the gaze’, as a key
idea from critical art history, might affect the
understanding of art by art educators. It shows
how the use of this key idea involved not just the
disruption of a modernist model of art interpretation
(based on the author and the oeuvre), but
also mediated the discursive production of the
subjectivity of the interpreters as readers/writers
of the work. The research was based in the interpretation
of a specific artwork by Manet, A Bar at
the Folies-Bergère.
