Art And Culture

Author : Monica Gattinger
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Cindy Maguire,Ann Holt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000548907

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Arts and Culture in Global Development Practice by Cindy Maguire,Ann Holt Pdf

This book explores the role that arts and culture can play in supporting global international development. The book argues that arts and culture are fundamental to human development and can bring considerable positive results for helping to empower communities and provide new ways of looking at social transformation. Whilst most literature addresses culture in abstract terms, this book focuses on practice-based, collective, community-focused, sustainability-minded, and capacity-building examples of arts and development. The book draws on case studies from around the world, investigating the different ways practitioners are imagining or defining the role of arts and culture in Belize, Canada, China, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Kosovo, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, the USA, and Western Sahara refugee camps in Algeria. The book highlights the importance of situated practice, asking what questions or concerns practitioners have and inviting a dialogic sharing of resources and possibilities across different contexts. Seeking to highlight practices and conversations outside normative frameworks of understanding, this book will be a breath of fresh air to practitioners, policy makers, students, and researchers from across the fields of global development, social work, art therapy, and visual and performing arts education.

Author : Barry Lord
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781933253947

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Art & Energy by Barry Lord Pdf

In Art & Energy, Barry Lord argues that human creativity is deeply linked to the resources available on earth for our survival. By analyzing art, artists, and museums across eras and continents, Lord demonstrates how our cultural values and artistic expression are formed by our efforts to access and control the energy sources that make these cultures possible.

Author : Sharon Louden
Publisher : Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 1783207264

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The Artist as Culture Producer by Sharon Louden Pdf

The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life is a collection of essays by 40 visual artists. Edited by Sharon Louden, the book describes how artists extend their practices outside of their studios. All of these contributors have impactful, artistic activities as change agents in their communities. Although there is a misconception that artists are invisible and hidden, the truth is that they furnish measurable and innovative outcomes at the front lines of education, the non-profit sector, and corporate environments. Their first-hand stories show the general public how contemporary artists of the 21st century add to creative economies through their out-of-the-box thinking while also generously contributing to the well-being of others.

Author : Clement Greenberg
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Catherine Lord,Richard Meyer
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0714849359

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Art and Queer Culture by Catherine Lord,Richard Meyer Pdf

Author : John Clammer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317687788

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Art, Culture and International Development by John Clammer Pdf

Culture is not simply an explanation of last resort, but is itself a rich, multifaceted and contested concept and set of practices that needs to be expanded, appreciated and applied in fresh ways if it is to be both valued in itself and to be of use in practical development. This innovative book places culture, specifically in the form of the arts, back at the centre of debates in development studies by introducing new ways of conceptualizing art in relation to development. The book shows how the arts and development are related in very practical ways – as means to achieve development goals through visual, dramatic, filmic and craft-inspired ways. It advocates not so much culture and development, but rather for the development of culture. Without a cultural content to economic and social transformation the problems found in much development – up-rooting of cultures, loss of art forms, languages and modes of expression and performance – may only accelerate. Paying attention to the development of the arts as the content of development helps to amend this culturally destructive process. Finally, the book argues for the value of the arts in attaining sustainable cultures, promoting poverty alleviation, encouraging self-empowerment, stimulating creativity and the social imagination, which in turn flow back into wider processes of social transformation. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter make this book ideal to help foster further thinking and debate. This book is an inspiring read for postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of development studies, cultural studies and sociology of development.

Author : Falk Heinrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317755180

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Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture by Falk Heinrich Pdf

This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form that necessitates the audience’s agential participation and that is often seen in interactive art and technology-driven media installations. After considering established theories of beauty, for example, Plato, Alison, Hume, Kant, Gadamer and Santayana through to McMahon and Sartwell, Heinrich argues that the experience of beauty in participatory art demands a revised notion of beauty; a conception that accounts for the performative and ludic turn within various art forms and which is, in a broader sense, a notion of beauty suited to a participatory and technology-saturated culture. Through case studies of participatory art, he provides an art-theoretical approach to the concept of performative beauty; an approach that is then applied to the wider context of media and design artefacts.

Author : Evelyn P. Hatcher
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780897896283

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Art as Culture by Evelyn P. Hatcher Pdf

The concept of art as being purely for aesthetic contemplation, that is typical of industrial civilization, is not a very useful one for cross-cultural studies. The majority of the art forms that we see in museums and art books that have come from Native America or Africa or Oceania, are objects that were once part of a larger artistic whole from which they have been extracted. We need to try to piece together and imagine the artistic context as well as the cultural one if we are to attain a deeper sense of the import than the piece available to use provides. Even then, it is almost impossible to define the artistic whole. Perhaps we would do better to regard these pieces as fragments from the lifestyle of a people.

Author : Gary Granville
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 1841505463

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Art Education and Contemporary Culture by Gary Granville Pdf

Using Ireland as a model, Art Education and Contemporary Culture offers a comprehensive treatment of art education in primary and secondary schools, institutions of higher education, cultural institutions, and the diverse communities they serve. Gary Granville has brought together a diverse group of eminent art educators who, together, lay out the opportunities and challenges of art practice while paying close attention to relevant national policy. Rounding out the discussion are essays that locate the challenges and innovations of art education from in international perspective.

Author : Adam Muller
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552381670

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Concepts of Culture by Adam Muller Pdf

How do we define 'culture?' In this volume, Adam Muller brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars in a number of different disciplines who each examine the concept of culture as it is understood and deployed within their respective fields.

Author : Melissa Gronlund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317386414

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Contemporary Art and Digital Culture by Melissa Gronlund Pdf

Contemporary Art and Digital Culture analyses the impact of the internet and digital technologies upon art today. Art over the last fifteen years has been deeply inflected by the rise of the internet as a mass cultural and socio-political medium, while also responding to urgent economic and political events, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. This book looks at how contemporary art addresses digitality, circulation, privacy, and globalisation, and suggests how feminism and gender binaries have been shifted by new mediations of identity. It situates current artistic practice both in canonical art history and in technological predecessors such as cybernetics and net.art, and takes stock of how the art-world infrastructure has reacted to the internet’s promises of democratisation. An invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of contemporary art – especially those studying history of art and art practice and theory – as well as those working in film, media, curation, or art education. Melissa Gronlund is a writer and lecturer on contemporary art, specialising in the moving image. From 2007–2015, she was co-editor of the journal Afterall, and her writing has appeared there and in Artforum, e-flux journal, frieze, the NewYorker.com, and many other places.

Author : Angeliki Lymberopolou,Pamela Bracewell-Homer
Publisher : Tate
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 1849760489

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Art & Visual Culture by Angeliki Lymberopolou,Pamela Bracewell-Homer Pdf

"Anthology [of] key texts that document the history of art over the past one thousand years"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Robert L. Thorp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:1176091445

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The Mortuary Art and Architecture of Early Imperial China by Robert L. Thorp Pdf

Author : Petra Kuppers
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1789380006

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Disability Arts and Culture by Petra Kuppers Pdf

A practical, accessible introduction to the study of disability art and culture around the world. What does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? Disability Arts and Culture seeks the answer to this question and more in an exploration of disability studies within the arts and beyond. In this collection, international scholars and practitioners use ethnographic and participatory action research approaches alongside textual and discourse analysis to discover how disability figures into our contemporary world. Chapters explore deaf theater productions, representations of disability on screen, community engagement projects, disabled bodies in dance, and more, in a comprehensive overview of disability studies that will benefit both practitioner and scholar.