Against Art And Culture

Author : Liam Dee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811070921

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Offering a negative definition of art in relation to the concept of culture, this book establishes the concept of ‘art/culture’ to describe the unity of these two fields around named-labour, idealised creative subjectivity and surplus signification. Contending a conceptual and social reality of a combined ‘art/culture’ , this book demonstrates that the failure to appreciate the dynamic totality of art and culture by its purported negators is due to almost all existing critiques of art and culture being defences of a ‘true’ art or culture against ‘inauthentic’ manifestations, and art thus ultimately restricting creativity to the service of the bourgeois commodity regime. While the evidence that art/culture enables commodification has long been available, the deduction that art/culture itself is fundamentally of the world of commodification has failed to gain traction. By applying a nuanced analysis of both commodification and the larger systems of ideological power, the book considers how the ‘surplus’ of art/culture is used to legitimate the bourgeois status quo rather than unravel it. It also examines possibilities for a post-art/culture world based on both existing practices that challenge art/culture identity as well as speculations on the integration of play and aesthetics into general social life. An out-and-out negation of art and culture, this book offers a unique contribution to the cultural critique landscape.

Author : Peter Abbs
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Arts
ISBN : 0415297923

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Against the Flow by Peter Abbs Pdf

This book calls for education to become an end in itself, as opposed to the means to an end, and for a place to be found in contemporary education for the spiritual, the aesthetic and the ethical.

Author : Monica Gattinger
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773552685

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The Roots of Culture, the Power of Art by Monica Gattinger Pdf

The Canada Council for the Arts is the country’s largest provider of grants for artists and arts organizations, benefiting not only writers, visual artists, performers, and musicians but Canadian culture as a whole. In The Roots of Culture, the Power of Art Monica Gattinger outlines the history of the Canada Council, the impetus for its foundation, and the ongoing debate about its goals and impact. Tracing the Council’s gradual shift from focusing on artistic supply and building the roots of Canadian arts and culture in its early years to its expanded focus on the power of the arts in society over time, Gattinger describes how leaders have navigated core tensions inherent in the Council’s activities. She examines the arguments for and against “art for art’s sake” and pursuing broader social and economic aims through the arts, as well as the inherent political conflicts between serving the needs of the artistic community and the needs of Canadian society, between leadership and followership, between autonomy and collaboration, and between emerging and established artistic practices. Combining lively storytelling with insightful analysis, and beautifully produced with dozens of photos of the art, people, and events that have shaped the organization through the years, The Roots of Culture, the Power of Art is essential reading for those with an interest in Canadian arts and culture and cultural policy.

Author : Liam Dee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Arts
ISBN : 9811070938

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Against Art and Culture by Liam Dee Pdf

Offering a negative definition of art in relation to the concept of culture, this book establishes the concept of 'art/culture' to describe the unity of these two fields around named-labour, idealised creative subjectivity and surplus signification. Contending a conceptual and social reality of a combined 'art/culture', this book demonstrates that the failure to appreciate the dynamic totality of art and culture by its purported negators is due to almost all existing critiques of art and culture being defences of a 'true' art or culture against 'inauthentic' manifestations, and art thus ultimately restricting creativity to the service of the bourgeois commodity regime. While the evidence that art/culture enables commodification has long been available, the deduction that art/culture itself is fundamentally of the world of commodification has failed to gain traction. By applying a nuanced analysis of both commodification and the larger systems of ideological power, the book considers how the 'surplus' of art/culture is used to legitimate the bourgeois status quo rather than unravel it. It also examines possibilities for a post-art/culture world based on both existing practices that challenge art/culture identity as well as speculations on the integration of play and aesthetics into general social life. An out-and-out negation of art and culture, this book offers a unique contribution to the cultural critique landscape.

Author : François Matarasso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 1903080207

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A Restless Art by François Matarasso Pdf

From the contents:00I. Participatory art now01. The normalisation of participatory art 0II. What is participatory art?02. Concepts03. Defnitions04. The intentions of participatory art 05. The art of participatory art 06. The ethics of participatory art 0III. Where does participatory art come from?07. Making history 08. Deep roots 09. Community art and the cultural revolution (1968 to 1988) 010. Participatory art and appropriation (1988 to 2008).

Author : Meade, Rosie,Shaw, Mae
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781447340515

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Arts, Culture and Community Development by Meade, Rosie,Shaw, Mae Pdf

Drawing on international examples, this book interrogates the relationship between the arts, culture and community development. Contributors from six continents, reimagine community development as they consider how aesthetic arts contribute to processes of peacebuilding, youth empowerment, participatory planning and environmental regeneration.

Author : Marc Chagall,Abram Markovich ?fros,Benjamin Harshav,Barbara Harshav
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0804748314

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Marc Chagall on Art and Culture by Marc Chagall,Abram Markovich ?fros,Benjamin Harshav,Barbara Harshav Pdf

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and culture. The documents and interviews shed light on his rich, versatile, and enigmatic art from within his own mental world. The book raises the problems of a multi-cultural artist with several intersecting identities and the tensions between modernist form and cultural representation in twentieth-century art. It reveals the travails and achievements of his life as a Jew in the twentieth century and his perennial concerns with Jewish identity and destiny, Yiddish literature, and the state of Israel. This collection includes annotations and introductions of the Chagall texts by the renowned scholar Benjamin Harshav that elucidate the texts and convey the changing cultural contexts of Chagall's life. Also featured is the translation by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav of the first book about Chagall's work, the 1918 Russian The Art of Marc Chagall.

Author : Gerardo Mosquera,Jean Fisher
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 0262633469

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Over Here by Gerardo Mosquera,Jean Fisher Pdf

Artists and scholars living and working outside of mainstream cultural circuits address the cultural entanglements of the global and the local.

Author : Sharon Louden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : ART
ISBN : 1783207272

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The Artist as Culture Producer by Sharon Louden Pdf

When 'Living and Sustaining a Creative Life' was published in 2013, it became an immediate sensation. Edited by Sharon Louden, the book brought together forty essays by working artists, each sharing their own story of how to sustain a creative practice that contributes to the ongoing dialogue in contemporary art. The book struck a nerve how do artists really make it in the world today? Louden took the book on a sixty-two-stop book tour, selling thousands of copies, and building a movement along the way. Now, Louden returns with a sequel: forty more essays from artists who have successfully expanded their practice beyond the studio and become change agents in their communities. There is a misconception that artists are invisible and hidden, but the essays here demonstrate the truth artists make a measurable and innovative economic impact in the non-profit sector, in education, and in corporate environments. The Artist as Culture Producer illustrates how today's contemporary artists add to creative economies through out-of-the-box thinking while also generously contributing to the well-being of others. By turns humorous, heartbreaking, and instructive, the testimonies of these forty diverse working artists will inspire and encourage every reader from the art student to the established artist.

Author : Clement Greenberg
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1971-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0807066818

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Art and Culture by Clement Greenberg Pdf

"Clement Greenberg is, internationally, the best-known American art critic popularly considered to be the man who put American vanguard painting and sculpture on the world map. . . . An important book for everyone interested in modern painting and sculpture."—The New York Times

Author : Laura Raicovich
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781839760525

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Culture Strike by Laura Raicovich Pdf

A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm In an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire. Protestors have mobilized against sources of museum funding, as happened at the Metropolitan Museum, and against board appointments, forcing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders to resign at the Whitney. That is to say nothing of demonstrations against exhibitions and artworks. Protests have roiled institutions across the world, from the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim to the Akron Art Museum. A popular expectation has grown that galleries and museums should work for social change. As Director of the Queens Museum, Laura Raicovich helped turn that New York muni- cipal institution into a public commons for art and activism, organizing high-powered exhibitions that doubled as political protests. Then in January 2018, she resigned, after a dispute with the Queens Museum board and city officials. This public controversy followed the museum’s responses to Donald Trump’s election, including her objections to the Israeli government using the museum for an event featuring Vice President Mike Pence. In this lucid and accessible book, Raicovich examines some of the key museum flashpoints and provides historical context for the current controversies. She shows how art museums arose as colonial institutions bearing an ideology of neutrality that masks their role in upholding conservative, capitalist values. And she suggests ways museums can be reinvented to serve better, public ends.

Author : Jules David Prown
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300084315

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Art as Evidence by Jules David Prown Pdf

Art As Evidence celebrates the career of Jules Prown, historian of American art and a pioneer in the study of material culture. It brings together some of his most influential essays along with an introductory chapter, and an intellectual autobiography.

Author : Marian Pastor-Roces
Publisher : National University of Singapore Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9719555963

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Gathering by Marian Pastor-Roces Pdf

Author : Colleen Margaret Clarke,Eli Jacob Szydlo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781442260801

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Stealing History by Colleen Margaret Clarke,Eli Jacob Szydlo Pdf

When compared to terrorism, drugs and violent crimes that occupy the news today art is not considered as important. But, as it turns out, art and cultural crime is currently ranked as the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. What exactly is art crime? Why does art matter? And what is law enforcement doing to prevent this crime today? Due to the misleading portrayal of art crime in the entertainment industry people have the flawed belief that art and cultural crime doesn’t damage anyone in a direct way. And the truth of the matter is that this crime results in the loss of billions of dollars annually. Art and cultural crime is not simply focused on museums or private displays, the loss of art directly affects our cultural identity and history. Napoleon moved from one region to the next collecting art and sending as much as possible back to France. The Nazis looted cultural property from every territory they occupied. And there have been various cases of ISIL and ISIS destroying archaeological sites as a method of destroying any evidence of past culture or history that disagree with their own. With the United States being the largest market for both legal and illicit artwork in the world more preventative attention from law enforcement and security is needed for our country to meet international standards and end detrimental art crimes. In Stealing History, Colleen Clarke and Eli J. Szydlo look at the history behind art crime, how these crimes have grown over the last half century, and what law enforcement has been involved in protecting the world from these crimes.

Author : Bob Avakian
Publisher : Insight Press, Incorporated
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0976023636

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Observations on Art and Culture, Science and Philosophy by Bob Avakian Pdf

This provocative collection of reflections and observations by Bob Avakian on art, culture, science and philosophy offers a rare treat. Excerpted from formal talks as well as more informal discussions and conversations, this collection allows the reader to experience Bob Avakian--in the process of developing his thinking and re-envisioning the communist project on a wide range of subjects, from the dictatorship of the proletariat to discussions of truth, beauty, science and imagination. This collection will provide the reader with important, fresh, and provocative insights and provoke further creative and critical thinking on art, culture, science, philosophy... and revolution.