in this book, gert biesta presents a new approach to contemporary art education by showing the unique possibilities the arts offer to establish a dialogue with the world around us. this approach to art education is based on teaching as a process of showing, where the teacher shows the student what could be good, important or meaningful to master in the world. as a starting point for illustrating this method, the book proposes 'how to explain pictures to a dead hare' (1965) by joseph beuys, which biesta uses in order to draw out a number of important lessons about teaching.