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"Twenty-seven contributors - artists, cultural professionals, scholars, a journalist, grantmakers - were asked this question, "Are the Arts Essential?" In response, they offer deep and challenging answers applying the lenses of the arts, and those of the sciences, the humanities, publ...
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New York University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Twenty-seven contributors - artists, cultural professionals, scholars, a journalist, grantmakers - were asked this question, "Are the Arts Essential?" In response, they offer deep and challenging answers applying the lenses of the arts, and those of the sciences, the humanities, public policy, and philanthropy. Playing so many parts, situated in so many places, these writers illustrate the ubiquity of the arts and culture in the United States. They draw from the performing arts and the visual arts, from poetry and literature, and from culture in our everyday lived experiences. Every entry challenges readers to go beyond the usual in thinking about the arts and culture in the context of our challenging times"-- |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 331 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 x 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-294) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781479812622 1479812625 9781479812639 1479812633 |
| Index Number: | NX180 |
| CLC: | J171.2-05 |
| Call Number: | J171.2-05/A678 |
| Contents: |
Foreword / Introduction : Poems Don't Stay in Place : How the Arts Move and Change Us / Part I : Strengthening Society. What Is to Be Done? / New York Reimagined : Artists, Arts Organizations, and the Rebirth of a City / Leading Institutional Change : New Thinking about Mission, Values, and Purpose / The Arts Today / Are the Arts Essential? / Part II : Benefiting the Individual. Art in Theory : An Insight from Marcel Duchamp / "Exchanging Signals with the Planet Mars" : Reading as Relationship / Talking of Walking / Why Teach the Arts : Beyond Specious Claims / A Human Beauty, a Human Risk : The Arts Within Us / Part III : Finding and Fostering Community. Reflections : Are the Arts Essential? / An Urdu of the Twenty-First-Century United States / Cultural Conservatory : Living the Arts / It's Who We Are / An Artist's Journey / Part IV : Engaging the Sciences. The Work of Art in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing / City as Living Laboratory : Creating a New Narrative for Climate Change and the Public Realm / Unreasonable Movement : Unreasonable Thought / Jazz and Consciousness / Part V : Recording and Sharing Our Histories. Art and Consciousness from Blombos Cave to Black Lives Matter / Art Saved Us ... from What? / Darkness and Light : the powers of performing / Art Invites the World In / On the Value of the Arts and Culture in a Global Community / The Arts and Global Relations / Conclusion : The Art of Gathering / Annotated Bibliography / |