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This title presents an anthology of texts which frames the recent educational turn in the arts within a wider historical and social context. The Documents of Contemporary Art are a series of anthologies co-published by Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. Edited and introduced by a scholar, artist, critic or curator, each of these sourcebooks provides access to a plurality of voices and perspectives on a specific subject or body of writing that has been of key influence to contemporary art internationally.