Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society
Title | Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society PDF eBook |
Author | R. Howells |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 423 |
Release | 2012-10-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1137283548 |
A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. The collection pays special attention to the vested interests and the social dynamics involved, including class, religion, culture, and - above all - power.
Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society
Title | Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society PDF eBook |
Author | R. Howells |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 331 |
Release | 2012-10-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1137283548 |
A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. The collection pays special attention to the vested interests and the social dynamics involved, including class, religion, culture, and - above all - power.
Art & Outrage
Title | Art & Outrage PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Walker |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Covering the period from the late 1940s to 1990s , Walker provides a detailed survey of the most prominent cases of art that has scandalised.
Romantic Art in Practice
Title | Romantic Art in Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Thora Brylowe |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 283 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1108426409 |
Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a 'sister-art' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.
Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy
Title | Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Evans |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 235 |
Release | 2018-11-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0231547366 |
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.
Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences
Title | Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Klancher |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 325 |
Release | 2013-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107029104 |
This book discusses how Romantic-age writers and new cultural institutions transformed ideas of knowledge inherited from the early-modern period.
Art and Outrage
Title | Art and Outrage PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 261 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | POLITICAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | 9781783718771 |