Selected Publications

BOOKS

• Baldacchino, J. Education Beyond Education: Self and the imaginary in Maxine Greene’s philosophy (Peter Lang, 2008) (ISBN-10: 1433103567; ISBN-13: 978-1433103568)
• Baldacchino, J. Avant-Nostalgia: An excuse to pause. Images by Jeremy Diggle. Unit for the Study of Philosophy in Art (USOPIA) Series, published under the auspices of the European League for the Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), Aberdeen 2002. (ISBN 1 901 085 708).
• Baldacchino, J. Easels of Utopia: Art's Fact Returned. Ashgate, Aldershot 1998. (ISBN 1 84014 144 X).
• Baldacchino, J. Post-Marxist Marxism: Questioning the Answer. Difference and Realism after Lukacs and Adorno, Avebury, Aldershot 1996. (ISBN 1 85972 438 8)

• Baldacchino, J. '"Relative Ignorance": Lingua and linguaggio in Gramsci’s concept of a formative aesthetic as a concern for power. In D. R. Cole, L.J. Graham (Eds.), The Power In/Of Language. A special Edition of Educational Philosophy & Theory. (forthcoming 2009/10).
• Baldacchino, J. 'What lies beyond the Bauhaus?: The political "logics" of college art pedagogy'. Australian Art Education, Vol. 32 N.1, 2009.
  
• Baldacchino, J. 'Opening the picture: On the political responsibility of arts-based research: A review essay'. International Journal for Education and the Arts, 10 (Review 3), 2009.
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘The praxis of art’s deschooled practice’, International Journal of Art & Design Education vol. 27. no. 3, 2008.
• Baldacchino, J. ‘“The Power To Develop Dispositions”: Revisiting John Dewey’s Democratic Claims For Education’. Article review. Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol 42, Issue 1, 2008
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Art after beauty: values before standards’, Analecta Husserliana vol. XCVII (Springer, Netherlands, 2008).
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Between The Ironic And The Irenic: Is happiness "suspended» in contemporary art?’, Analecta Husserliana vol. XCVI (Springer, Netherlands, 2008).
• Baldacchino, J. ‘The pedagogy of culture. Cultural Theory within the politics of a “third space”’, in interactive Discourse, Vol 1. No. 1, December 2007.
  
• Baldacchino, J. Between illusions: Art's argument for "Weak" Reality', Analecta Husserliana, vol. LXXXVII, pp. 157-168 (Springer, Netherlands, 2005).
• Baldacchino, J. 'Hope in groundlessness: Art's denial as pedagogy' in Journal of Maltese Educational Research, University of Malta, Vol. 3, Issue 1, June 2005.
• Baldacchino, J. The covergent I': Empathy as an aesthetic category', Analecta Husserliana vol. LXXXIII, pp. 505-519. (Kluwer, Netherlands 2004).
• Baldacchino, J. 'The Metaphysics of Childhood. Children in the art of Carra and De Chirico', in The John Darling Lectures 2002-3, Faculty of Education, University of Aberdeen, November 6, 2002.
• Baldacchino, J. Contemporary Music and the Question of Aesthetic Identity', in Cynthia Tse Kimberlin, Akin Euba (eds.) Intercultural Music, Volume 3, (MRI Press, 2001).
• Baldacchino, J. Art's Gaming Lost: within the make-belief of curricular certainty' in Curriculum Studies, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 333-344. (1994)
• Baldacchino, J. From African Pianism' to a New Commonwealth of Interculturalism. An Analytical Review of Akin Euba's Modern African Music and Joshua Uzoigwe's Akin Euba, An Introduction to the Life and Music of a Nigerian Composer', in Commonwealth Music, London 1994, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 2-5.
• Baldacchino, J. Cultural Refractions', The Musical Times, London, July 1992. pp. 355-6.
• Baldacchino, J. Literacy: From Dominion to Liberation', The Teacher, Malta, May 1990, pp. 23-4.
• Baldacchino, J. An Ethereal Flute from the Mediterranean', Pan, The Journal of the British Flute Society, London, March 1990. pp. 12-17.

• Baldacchino, J. ‘Learning with art, outwith the school: Stumbling upon Adami’s lines, inside Serra’s sequence’ in Theoretical Perspectives on Comprehensive Education: The Way Forward. Hervé Varenne, Edmund W. Gordon, and Linda Lin (eds.). Lewiston, NY: (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009). For online reference see: Comprehensive Education. Explorations, possibilities, challenges.
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Salvaging what “we” never lost. Art, site and the virtual in the Maltese imaginary’ in Vella, Raphael (ed.) Cross-Currents: Critical Essays on Art and Culture in Malta, (Allied Publishers, Valletta 2008)
• Baldacchino, J. ‘“Forms Of Life’: On being taken to task by art and education”, in Vella, Raphael (ed.) Art Education in Malta, (Valletta: Allied Publishers, 2007).
  
• Baldacchino, J. 'ART(e) FACTUM: Maurizio Pellegrin: Doing fact(s), dialogando' in Rubbini, Alice (ed.) Writings on Maurizio Pellegrin 1980-2006, (Milano: SKIRA, Ed, 2006).
• Baldacchino, J. 'On "a dog chasing its tail" Gramsci's challenge to the sociology of knowledge', in Gramsci and Education, Carmel Borg, Joseph A. Buttigieg, Peter Mayo (eds.), (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002).
• Baldacchino, J. 'Sapide di sale nostalgico: Note sull'estetica e la pedagogia del Mediterraneo', in Giovanni Pampanini (ed.), "Un Mare di Opportunita". Cultura e Educazione nel Mediterraneo del III Millenio (Armando Editore: Roma 2000).
• Baldacchino, J. 'Imposing Freedom: The Cultural Game of Adult Education', in Godfrey Baldacchino, Peter Mayo (eds.) Beyond Schooling: Adult Learning in Malta (Mireva Publications, Malta 1997).

• Baldacchino, J. Review of Charles R. Garoian & Yvonne M. Gaudelius Spectacle Pedagogy: Art, Politics, and Visual Culture (SUNY 2008). International Journal of Art & Design Education vol. 27. no. 3, 2008.
• Baldacchino, J. Review of Richard Hickman, Why We Make Art And Why It Is Taught. Teachers College Record, June 10, 2008.
  
• Baldacchino, J. Book Review of Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor & Richard Siegesmund (eds.) Arts-Based Research in Education: Foundations for Practice (Routledge 2008) in International Journal of Art & Design Education vol. 27. no. 2, 2008.
  
• Baldacchino, J. Book Review of Charles Juwah (ed.) Interactions in Online Education: Implications for Theory and Practice. (Routledge 2006) in interactive Discourse,  Vol 1. No. 1, December 2007.
  
• Baldacchino, J. Book Review of Katy Mcloed & Lin Holridge, (eds.), Thinking through Art: Reflections on art as research (Routledge 2006), in International Journal of Art & Design Education vol. 25 no. 3, 2006.
  

• Baldacchino, J. ‘The Parable of Possibility’, Catalogue Essay in Richard Jochum: Intersections & Interstices, Teachers College Columbia University, November 2008.
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Immanent Exteriors. A brief reflection on Martha MacLeish’s art’, Catalogue Essay in Martha McLeish: Surface Structures, Indiana University, 2008.
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Formal vindications of informal meanings / Reivindicaciones formales de significados informales’, Catalogue Essay in Mary Sullivan & Boris Curatolo: Wood Meets Paper, New York and Madrid 2008
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Barbara Howey’s Art of the Familial’, Catalogue Essay for Barbara Howey: Techniques of Memory, New York 2007.
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Found in transition’, Catalogue Essay in Fong, Keygobadi, Malhorta, Paterson, Pomerantz, Toledo: Found in Transition, New York 2006. 
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Erasures and Supplements: On Nancy Goldring’s Palimpsest’, in The Architect’s Newspaper, 2006.
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘To “look with”: Wei Li Zhu’s art of gentle truth’, Catalogue Essay in Wei Li Zu Paintings (Aberdeen, Scotland; and Beijing, China 2006).
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘On Being with the work’, Catalogue Essay in Cynthia Capriata: Bicho-Creatures (Teachers College, Columbia University, New York 2005).
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘(Hand held) On distant shores’, Catalogue Essay for Peninsula Arts, Exhibition of works by Jeremy Diggle, New Zealand House, London UK, (May 2005).
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Words of Belonging: After a conversation with Leena Nammari’, in Leena Nammari, Belonging (Deveron Arts Publication, 2002)
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Homecoming(s)’. Catalogue Essay for Homecoming(s) Multi-Disciplinary Exhibition of works by Heather Delday, Moira Macaulay, Brian Grassom and Gawain Douglas. Duff House, Banff, Scotland, 2002.
  
• Baldacchino, J. Virtuoso Entrance of Beethoven's Archduke', The Higher Times, London 6.3.1992. p. 18.
• Baldacchino, J. ‘The Negation of Negation’, The Times, Malta 10 February 1989, p. 4.
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Soundscapes at the Aula Magna’, The Times, Malta 17 March 1989, p. 6.
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘An Inner Reality’, The Times, Malta 11 April 1989, p. 6.
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘The Rhythms of Ali El Abani’s Art’, The Times, Malta 28. April 1989., p. 7.
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Definitely Feminine’, The Times, Malta 13 June 1989, p. 8.
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Contrasting Movements’, The Times, Malta 23 June 1989, p. 23.
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘The Metaphysics of Chance’, The Times, Malta 31 July 1989, p. 7.
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘The Cross-roads of Mediterranean Music’, The Sunday Times, Malta 17 December 1989, p. 26.
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Panorama of Mediterranean Music’, The Times, Malta 18 December 1989, p. 7.
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Against the myth of homogeneity’ The Sunday Times, Malta 29 March 1992, p. 44.
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘The intransigence of the unreal’ The Times, Malta, January 9, 1989.
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Post-Independence Art’ The Times, Malta, January 26, 1989
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘A construction behind the spirit’ The Times, Malta, February 17, 1989
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘Playing Shades into forms’ The Times, Malta, July 10, 1989
  
• Baldacchino, J. ‘From and towards the soul’ The Times, Malta, November 3, 1989
  

INVITED LECTURES

• Baldacchino, J. 2009. ‘Art, learning and the politics of what?’ Institute For Aesthetic Research. Exit Art Gallery, New York City, United States. November 4^th
• Baldacchino, J. 2009. ‘Risking the Aesthetic’. Paul Standish (respondent). Institute of Education, University of London, England. March 27
• Baldacchino, J. 2009. ‘On The Arts’ Pedagogical Polity’. Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta, Malta. March 16.
• Baldacchino, J. 2008. ‘The Arts’ conversational ethics and the makings of diversity’ South Asian Imaginaries Symposium, Conversations Across Cultures, Centre for Educational Outreach and Innovation, Teachers College Columbia University, New York City, United States. October 31st.
• Baldacchino, J. 2008. ‘The role of the artefact in the research process: Art, Design and Knowledge’. Lecture to the School of the Arts, Renmin University of China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China. 18 June.
• Baldacchino, J. 2007. ‘Post-Marxism and Post-Marxist aesthetics’. Lecture to The Institute of Marxian Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China. 20 June.
• Baldacchino, J. 2007. ‘Art And Education Parallel Philosophies, Shared Practices’, The University of Paisley (now West of Scotland University), Scotland. 13th February.
• Baldacchino, J. 2006. ‘Post-Marxism’. Lecture to The Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, Beijing, People’s Republic of China. June 21.
• Baldacchino, J. 2002. The Metaphysics of Childhood. Children in the art of Carrà and De Chirico. The John Darling Lectures 2002-3, Faculty of Education, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. November 6.
• Baldacchino, J. 1998. ‘Mediterranean Spectacles: The articulation of myth in the poetics of reality’, Portsmouth University, England. 28 October.
• Baldacchino, J. 1996. ‘Caravaggism and Modernity’, Goldsmiths College, London, England. September.
• Baldacchino, J. 1995. ‘What’s happening to Art in education?’, Somerset College of Arts & Technology, England. 13 October.
• Baldacchino, J. 1995. ‘Luigi Nono: The sounds of Post-Modernity’, Concluding lecture in The History of Ideas Week, Hampstead School, London, England. 15 September.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Baldacchino, J. 2008. ‘What lies beyond the Bauhaus? The political ‘logic’ of college art pedagogy’. College Art Association (CAA) Annual Convention. Dallas.
• Baldacchino, J. & jagodzinsky, jan. 2008. ‘Arts Class, Social Class: Returning The Political to Contemporary Art Education’. National Art Education Association convention, New Orleans.
• Baldacchino, J. 2008. ‘Critical Theory As Studio Pedagogy: Contemporary Art's Critical Challenge To Art Schools’ National Art Education Association convention, New Orleans.
• Baldacchino, J. 2007. ‘Art’s Political Anomaly: “Impasse” As Revolution’. 33rd Annual Conference of Social Theory Politics and Art, 11-13 October, New York University, New York. City.
• Baldacchino, J. 2007. ‘Art’s Deschooled Education: A Revaluation of Art Education in View of Contemporary Art’. National Art Education Association Annual Convention, New York City, 16 March.
• Baldacchino, J. 2006. ‘Between The Ironic And The Irenic: Is happiness “suspended” in contemporary art?’, the 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Fine Arts with the theme The Happy Choice: Measure Or Excess? Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts, May 26-27.
• Baldacchino, J. 2006. ‘Art’s transient illusion: word, image and space in the work of Antoni Tàpiez’. The Scottish Word and Image Group International Conference, University of Dundee, Scotland 12-13 May.
• Baldacchino, J. 2006. ‘Practice’s perversion of praxis: art, education and the sociology of knowledge’, Ways of Knowing in Educational Research Conference, Teachers College Columbia University, New York City, March 3^rd.
• Baldacchino, J. 2005. ‘Politics as Research’, Ways of Doing: Exploring the Methodological boundaries of research in the Arts and Humanities, Teachers College Columbia University, New York City, 7^th November. (further details: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/centers/waysofdoing/program.htm).
• Baldacchino, J. 2005. ‘Art after beauty: values before standards’, International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics, & Fine Arts, 10^th Annual Conference, with the theme Beauty’s appeal in the Transformation of Standards for Valuation. Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts, May 27-28.
• Baldacchino, J. & Sullivan, Graeme. 2005. ‘Doing art, making philosophy’, National Art Education Association Convention March 7. Boston, Massachusetts.
• Baldacchino, J. 2004. ‘Between illusions: Art’s argument for Reality’, Annual Meeting of the International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Fine Arts with the theme Human Creation Between Reality And Illusion, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts, May 14-15.
• Baldacchino, J. 2003. ‘The covergent “I”: Empathy as an aesthetic category’, Ninth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Fine Arts, World Phenomenology Institute with the theme Beauty, Truth, Goodness: Aesthetics at the Crossroads. Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts, May 16-18.
• Baldacchino, J. & Diggle, Jeremy. 2003. ‘Culture and the Reliquarium: Identity, the visual and truth’, Culture Incorporated: Bodies Technologies Habitats, Cultural Studies Association of Australia Conference, December 6-8. University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
• Baldacchino, J. & Euba, Akin. 2003. ‘Post-Diasporic Homecomings: Myth or Possibility?’, Music of the African Diaspora Conference and Festival, Churchill College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, 1-4 August.
• Baldacchino, J. 2003. ‘Critical Theory and the rising Hybridity within the Visual Arts’, Teachers’ Academy, European League of the Institutes of the Arts, Institut del Teatre and Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 July.
• Baldacchino, J. 2002. ‘Culture as jocular repetition: “use” beyond mechanical utility’, Ute Culture: the utility of culture and the uses of cultural studies, Cultural Studies Association of Australia Conference, December 5-7, University of Melbourne, Australia.
• Baldacchino, J. 2002. ‘Modernity’s Children: Rousseau’s L’enfant au polichinelle (1903) and Carrà’s Ricordi d’Infanzia (1916)’, 9th Annual International Aberdeen Word and Image Conference, University of Aberdeen, Scotland 11 May.
• Baldacchino, J. 2001. ‘Thalassic Makings: Angelopoulos, Ungaretti and Kavafis’, 8Th Annual Aberdeen International Word and Image, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 11-12 May.
• Baldacchino, J. 2000. ‘Aesthetics contra Aesthetics: The discursive challenge of multiculturism’, 6Th Biennial International Symposium and Festival on the Theme ‘New Intercultural Music’, University of London Institute of Education, London, 17 April.
• Baldacchino, J. 1998. ‘Prolegomena for a Future Revolution: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Che Guevara and Teresa d’Avila’, Coming Down Fast Conference, Wolverhampton University, United Kingdom, 11 July.

OTHER

• Baldacchino, J. (interviewee), Vella, Mario (interviewer). 2009. «Tango» TV Interview. One TV. Malta, March 17.
• Baldacchino, J. (interviewee) Cherow O’Leary, Renee (interviewer). 2009. Peer Review: Research Talk Show. Podcast on Teachers College Columbia University, I Tunes U. March 14. Accessed in: http://itunes.tc.columbia.edu/
• Baldacchino, J. (respondent) & Greene, Maxine (speaker). 2009. The 3^nd Annual Radical Philosophies and Education Seminar: Maxine Greene, Teachers College Columbia University, New York City, March 4.
• Baldacchino, J. 2008. (workshop facilitator and presenter), ‘Contextual and Critical Connections’, Think Tank III, School of The Art Institute of Chicago. June 6-8.
• Baldacchino, J. (respondent) & Ranciere, Jacques (speaker). 2008. The 2^nd Annual Radical Philosophies and Education Seminar: Jacques Ranciere, Teachers College Columbia University, New York City, April 22.
• Laclau, Ernesto (speaker). 2007. The 1^st Annual Radical Philosophies and Education Seminar: Ernesto Laclau, Teachers College Columbia University, New York City, April 11.
• Baldacchino, J. 2007. ‘Art’s paradox as with-ness and possibility’, a response to Prof David T. Hansen’s lecture ‘the idea of a cosmopolitan education as a response to a changing world’, Teachers College Columbia University, New York City, February 6.
• Baldacchino, J. (presenter) & Greene, Maxine (respondent). 2005. ‘Response to Presenters’, Teachers College Columbia University Conference on Christo’s and Jean Claude’s Gates Project, Enterprising Art and Artistic Practice, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Sackler Centre for Arts Education, New York City, 19 February.

• Abstracts,  Collective Show, South Korea, May 2008.
  
• Art and Art Education Faculty Exhibit, 7-22 September, 2004. Macy Gallery, Teachers College Columbia University, New York.
• Arch, 1-17 June, 1994. Library Exhibition Hall, University of Warwick, England.
• Uprising, August, 1991. National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta, Malta.
• Satira '89, 21 August -7 September, 1989. National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta.
• Avangwardjarti, 17-30 July, 1989. National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta, Malta.