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The purpose of this study was to describe how the art subject´s societal relevance is motivated. The questions asked were: How is the art subject's societal relevance in school policy, state's public investigations and public art subject debate motivated? And how is the future development of the art subject described therein?

The method used was based on Faircloughs critical discourse analysis and studied text extracts from publicly accessible publications.

The results showed a complex and multifaceted discourse. Furthermore, the analysis showed several intertextual and interdiscursive relations, but also its potential future development with a discourse comprised predominantly of concrete statements.

The conclusion was that school policy discourse emphasized to a large extent the democratic societal relevance, the discourse in state public investigations used largely a beneficial economic relevance, and the discourse of the art subject debate showed a tendency to pursue an analytical, critical, and communicative relevance. However, there were elements within each discourse that were reminiscent of each other. The future development of the subject highlighted the need to ensure the desirable creative commodity and a necessity of a more theoretical inclined subject, and a need to develop the subject as support to ensure democracy.