This book proposes a panoramic view of art education in Mexico based on the analysis of its insertion into the compulsory curriculum, with the aim of explaining its foundations and contributing to advances in its study and application. The analytical approach scrutinizes the theoretical, political and contextual bases of art education in Mexico, as well as the main pedagogical paradigms on which it has been based. All this on the understanding that art education has been one of the main enhancers of both human development and societies. It also highlights one of the key problems of art in Mexico: the configuration of its symbolic value through school culture.