Democratic Art
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Democratic Art
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Author : Sharon Ann Musher
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-05-04
Democratic Art written by Sharon Ann Musher and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-04 with History categories.
Throughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wasn’t always this way. At its height in 1935, the New Deal devoted $27 million—roughly $461 million today—to supporting tens of thousands of needy artists, who used that support to create more than 100,000 works. Why did the government become so involved with these artists, and why weren’t these projects considered a frivolous waste of funds, as surely many would be today? In Democratic Art, Sharon Musher explores these questions and uses them as a springboard for an examination of the role art can and should play in contemporary society. Drawing on close readings of government-funded architecture, murals, plays, writing, and photographs, Democratic Art examines the New Deal’s diverse cultural initiatives and outlines five perspectives on art that were prominent at the time: art as grandeur, enrichment, weapon, experience, and subversion. Musher argues that those engaged in New Deal art were part of an explicitly cultural agenda that sought not just to create art but to democratize and Americanize it as well. By tracing a range of aesthetic visions that flourished during the 1930s, this highly original book outlines the successes, shortcomings, and lessons of the golden age of government funding for the arts.
The Arts Of Democracy
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Author : Casey Nelson Blake
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2007
The Arts Of Democracy written by Casey Nelson Blake and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art and state categories.
Written by some of the most respected and accomplished scholars working in their fields, this volume illuminates the often contradictory impulses that have shaped the historical intersection of the arts, public culture, and the state in modern America.
Doing Democracy
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Author : Nancy S. Love
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2013-12-01
Doing Democracy written by Nancy S. Love and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-01 with Art categories.
Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future. Doing Democracy examines the potential of the arts and popular culture to extend and deepen the experience of democracy. Its contributors address the use of photography, cartooning, memorials, monuments, poetry, literature, music, theater, festivals, and parades to open political spaces, awaken critical consciousness, engage marginalized groups in political activism, and create new, more democratic societies. This volume demonstrates how ordinary people use the creative and visionary capacity of the arts and popular culture to shape alternative futures. It is unique in its insistence that democratic theorists and activists should acknowledge and employ affective as well as rational faculties in the ongoing struggle for democracy. Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern have collected a first-rate set of studies that illuminate the intersection between art and politics in the contemporary era. The text demonstrates how activist art and cultural politics can promote democratic politics and how democracy is enriched and enlivened by activist art projects. This book should interest everyone concerned with the fate of art and democracy in the contemporary era and how they can help nourish each other. Douglas Kellner, author of Media Spectacle and Insurrection, 2011: From the Arab Uprisings to Occupy Everywhere
Art In Public
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Author : Lambert Zuidervaart
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
Art In Public written by Lambert Zuidervaart and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with Philosophy categories.
This book examines fundamental questions about funding for the arts: why should governments provide funding for the arts? What do the arts contribute to daily life? Do artists and their publics have a social responsibility? Challenging questionable assumptions about the state, the arts and a democratic society, Lambert Zuidervaart presents a vigorous case for government funding, based on crucial contributions the arts make to civil society. He argues that the arts contribute to democratic communication and a social economy, fostering the critical and creative dialogue that a democratic society needs. Informed by the author's experience leading a non-profit arts organisation as well as his expertise in the arts, humanities and social sciences, this book proposes an entirely new conception of the public role of art with wide-ranging implications for education, politics and cultural policy.
Democratic Artworks
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Author : Charles Hersch
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1998-08-13
Democratic Artworks written by Charles Hersch and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-08-13 with Social Science categories.
Focusing on the political movements of the 1950s and 1960s, this book argues that the arts can strengthen democracy by politically educating citizens.
Art Education And The Democratic Commitment
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Author : D.T. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-14
Art Education And The Democratic Commitment written by D.T. Schwartz and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-14 with Philosophy categories.
In reflecting on this book and the process of writing it, the most pervasive theme I find is that of confluence. I drew much of the energy needed to write the book from the energy that resides at the confluence, or nexus, of contrasting ideas. At the most general level, the topic of arts subsidy offered a means of exploring simultaneously two of my favorite philosophical subjects-aesthetics and politics. The risk of a dual focus is of course that you do neither topic justice. However, the bigger payoff of this strategy resides in finding new and interesting connections between two otherwise disparate topics. Developing such connections between art and politics led directly to many of the book's positive arguments for subsidy. At a deeper level, the book exploits a confluence of contrasting philosophical methodologies. The central problem of the book politically justifying state support of the arts-is cast in the Anglo American tradition of analytical philosophy. Here normative arguments of ethics and politics are scrutinized with an eye toward developing a defensible justification of state action. Yet while the book initially situates the subsidy problem within this analytical tradition, its positive arguments for subsidy draw heavily from the ideas and methods of Continental philosophy. Rather than adjudicating normative claims of ethical and political ttuth, the Continental tradition aims at the hermeneutical task of interpreting and describing sttuctures of human meaning.
Public Art And The Fragility Of Democracy
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Author : Fred Evans
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-20
Public Art And The Fragility Of Democracy written by Fred Evans and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-20 with Philosophy categories.
Public space is political space. When a work of public art is put up or taken down, it is an inherently political statement, and the work’s aesthetics are inextricably entwined with its political valences. Democracy’s openness allows public art to explore its values critically and to suggest new ones. However, it also facilitates artworks that can surreptitiously or fortuitously undermine democratic values. Today, as bigotry and authoritarianism are on the rise and democratic movements seek to combat them, as Confederate monuments fall and sculptures celebrating diversity rise, the struggle over the values enshrined in the public arena has taken on a new urgency. In this book, Fred Evans develops philosophical and political criteria for assessing how public art can respond to the fragility of democracy. He calls for considering such artworks as acts of citizenship, pointing to their capacity to resist autocratic tendencies and reveal new dimensions of democratic society. Through close considerations of Chicago’s Millennium Park and New York’s National September 11 Memorial, Evans shows how a wide range of artworks participate in democratic dialogues. A nuanced consideration of contemporary art, aesthetics, and political theory, this book is a timely and rigorous elucidation of how thoughtful public art can contribute to the flourishing of a democratic way of life.
Democratic Visions
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Author : Celeste Connor
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2001-01-23
Democratic Visions written by Celeste Connor and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-23 with Art categories.
This work provides an in depth examination of the the group of American artists known as the Steiglitz circle. The book offers a synthetic, critical discussion of these artists' work which illustrates the social, political, and economic contexts of the 1920s and 1930s.
Film The Democratic Art
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Author : Garth Jowett
language : en
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Release Date : 1976
Film The Democratic Art written by Garth Jowett and has been published by Butterworth-Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Motion pictures categories.
The Democratic Art
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Author : Peter C. Marzio
language : en
Publisher: Boston : D. R. Godine ; Fort Worth : Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
Release Date : 1979
The Democratic Art written by Peter C. Marzio and has been published by Boston : D. R. Godine ; Fort Worth : Amon Carter Museum of Western Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Art categories.