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In the shadows of giants.('Exploring the Legends: Guideposts to the Future') (book review)

Marantz, Kenneth

Exploring the Legends: Guideposts to the Future

Sylvia K. Corwin, editor National Art Education Association: Reston, Va. 2001 $25.00 109 pages (paper)

Can there ever be enough histories produced? Is there such an entity as the "definitive telling" of a story? Even a field as young as art education has had its evolution charted many times; but Exploring the Legends: Guideposts to the Future comes at the target in a somewhat different fashion. Each of four art educators (three of them now retired) offers us his or her take on a major figure (all but one deceased) ...