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A timely and kaleidoscopic reflection on the importance of the arts in our societyIn the midst of a devastating pandemic, as theaters, art galleries and museums, dance stages and concert halls shuttered their doors indefinitely and institutional funding for entertainment and culture evaporated almos...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Arthurs, Alberta (Editor ), DiNiscia, Michael (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Arts and society > United States.
Social values > United States.
Arts et société > États-Unis.
Valeurs sociales > États-Unis.
ART > Criticism.
Arts and society
Social values
United States
Electronic books.
Essays
Essays.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Poems Don't Stay in Place: How the Arts Move and Change Us
  • Part I: Strengthening Society
  • 1. What Is to Be Done?
  • 2. New York Reimagined: Artists, Arts Organizations, and the Rebirth of a City
  • 3. Leading Institutional Change: New Thinking about Mission, Values, and Purpose
  • 4. The Arts Today
  • 5. Are the Arts Essential?
  • Part II: Benefiting the Individual
  • 6. Art in Theory: An Insight from Marcel Duchamp
  • 7. "Exchanging Signals with the Planet Mars": Reading as Relationship
  • 8. Talking of Walking
  • 9. Why Teach the Arts: Beyond Specious Claims
  • 10. A Human Beauty, a Human Risk: The Arts Within Us
  • Part III: Finding and Fostering Community
  • 11. Reflections: Are the Arts Essential?
  • 12. An Urdu of the Twenty-First-Century United States
  • 13. Cultural Conservatory: Living the Arts
  • 14. It's Who We Are
  • 15. An Artist's Journey
  • Part IV: Engaging the Sciences
  • 16. The Work of Art in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing
  • 17. City as Living Laboratory: Creating a New Narrative for Climate Change and the Public Realm
  • 18. Unreasonable Movement
  • Unreasonable Thought
  • 19. Jazz and Consciousness
  • Part V: Recording and Sharing Our Histories
  • 20. Art and Consciousness from Blombos Cave to Black Lives Matter
  • 21. Art Saved Us ... from What?
  • 22. Darkness and Light: the powers of performing
  • 23. Art Invites the World In
  • 24. On the Value of the Arts and Culture in a Global Community
  • 25. The Arts and Global Relations
  • Conclusion: The Art of Gathering
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • Index.

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