ABSTRACT
This article focuses on an event that is widespread and is sometimes considered a foundational milestone in the art teaching in Brazil - the so-called French Mission - to analyze it based on bibliographical research of heterogeneous and asymmetrical sources. Anchored in the French thinker Michel Foucault’s notion of archive, it is proposed to examine how the discourses on art teaching present in 55 prominent periodicals in the educational field, between 1996 and 2019, use the French Mission and how this event is recounted in the present. Regarding the controversy arising or not from a salvationist mission by French artists to nineteenth-century Brazil, apparently, the colonial question is reiterated. Thus, the implications of a decolonial education pushes us to suspect of the narratives considered official and true and places us in front of the white and Eurocentric monoculture that still makes up the discourses around the history of art teaching. In this sense, the present article brings up how the discourses on the subject seem to reinforce the colonizing look.
Keywords:
Art Teaching; French Mission; Foucauldian Studies; Decoloniality