21세기 들어 세계 각국은 변화하는 시각문화 환경 속에서 테크놀로지와 예술,인문 학의 견고한 테두리를 벗어나 창의적인 상상력과 정보를 생산하는 능력,개인의 소질 과 능력을 표현하고 개성을 함양하는데 힘을 쏟고 있다.우리나라도 이러한 방향에 발맞추어 새로운 사회 현상과 시각문화,그리고 삶을 위한 교육에 중점을 두어 국가 교육과정의 방향을 설정하였다.특별히 개정 미술과 교육과정(교육인적자원부,2007a) 의 개정 방향과 목표,내용 체계를 분석해볼 때,‘미적체험’,‘표현’,‘감상’은 각각 시각 문화,미술 제작,미술사 및 미술비평과 관련이 밀접한 영역이기 때문에,21세기 시각 문화 환경과 미술에서 이러한 교육 내용들이 연계성을 가지고 조직화,체계화될 수 있는 통합적인 관점,즉,미학적 관점이 필요하다할 것이다.
In order for an art education in the 21st century socio-cultural environment to accept new visual cultures and art phenomena, and realize them in the education, it would be needed to escape from the present expression-oriented art education, and utilize the art education in understanding not only the new art phenomena and visual cultures, but also the overall of lives. According to the necessity, this study aims, based on the contents and system of the 2007 revised national curriculum which accepted the 21C socio-cultural environment, to understand the 21C art through the sublime and simulacre aesthetics, which can explain the overall of the 21C society and culture, and suggest new way of art education on the new educational ground of visual culture and art. Thus, this study attempted to propose the contents of education based on the sublime and simulacreas astrategy of the 21C art education by integrating both concepts organically with the contents-system of the 2007 revised national curriculum, and based on this, suggested several educational aspects required to classify and understand the 21C art via the sublime and simulacre aesthetics. Also, according to the aspects, by selecting and organizing the contents closely related to the new curriculum, and integrating them with the contents-systemas well, it attempted to construct new contents of education and develop its appropriate program. This study is a philosophical argument for the successful development and utilization of art text books in the various a spects related to the development of authorized art text books according to the compilation plan by the 2007 revised national curriculum, and the value of this study will be realized through the development of effective programs and the directon-site inspection. The researcher would ceaselessly have to review, modify, and transform this study to develop more sophisticated and systematic contents of education.