Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty

2024-08-20 Art

Author : Paul Clements
Release : 2024-08-20
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 940/5 ( reviews)

Book Synopsis Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty by : Paul Clements

Download or read book Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty written by Paul Clements. This book was released on 2024-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making and the extent to which artist autonomy and authenticity in art is a struggle against psychological conditioning, controlling cultural institutions and markets, key to which is representation. The chapters are underpinned by examples from the arts, and the narrative weaves a trail through a range of conceptualizations that are applied to various aspects of visual culture from mainstream canonical arts to avant-garde, community and public art; social and political art to commercial art; and ethereal art to the popular, edgy and kitsch. The book is wide-ranging and employs various aesthetic, cultural, philosophical, political, psycho-social and sociological debates to highlight the problems and contradictions that an encounter with the arts and creativity engenders. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, arts management, cultural policy, cultural studies and cultural theory.

Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty

2025 Arts and society

Author : Paul Clements
Release : 2025
Genre : Arts and society
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Book Rating : 913/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty by : Paul Clements

Download or read book Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty written by Paul Clements. This book was released on 2025. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making, and the extent to which artist autonomy and authenticity in art is a struggle against psychological conditioning, controlling cultural institutions and markets, key to which is representation. The chapters are underpinned by examples from the arts and the narrative weaves a trail through a range of conceptualizations which are applied to various aspects of visual culture from mainstream canonical arts to avant-garde, community and public art; social and political art to commercial art; ethereal art to the popular, edgy and kitsch. The book is wide-ranging and employs various aesthetic, cultural, philosophical, political, psycho-social, and sociological debates to highlight the problems and contradictions that an encounter with the arts and creativity engenders. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, arts management, cultural policy, cultural studies and cultural theory"--

Intermedial Art Practices as Cultural Resilience

2024-09-20 Art

Author : Lindsay Blair
Release : 2024-09-20
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 101/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Intermedial Art Practices as Cultural Resilience written by Lindsay Blair. This book was released on 2024-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection of essays is focused on the idea of transmedialization: the ways that the traditional forms of the predominantly oral cultures of Scotland and Brittany (poetry, song and story) can be transformed by the use of hybrid forms and new digital technologies. The volume invites readers from a range of disciplines – music, art, literature, history, cultural memory studies, anthropology or media studies – to consider how an intermedial aesthetics of the edge can enable these distinctive cultures to thrive. The languages of both cultures are presently endangered and the essays seek to connect notions of language with a culture which can align its traditions with the concerns of the present day. The collection proceeds from a conceptual analysis of poetry film, peripheral vision and the concerns of peripheral communities to an examination of inventive practices in the film-poem, experimental video, film portrait, word-image, digitised music, sound-image and genre-contestant narratives. The collection also includes contributions from creative practitioners who utilize a range of hybrid forms to revitalize the traditional vernacular cultures of Scotland and Brittany. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, literature, film studies, media studies, music, cultural theory, and philosophy.

How Art Can Be Thought

2018-10-04 Art

Author : Al-An (Allan) deSouza
Release : 2018-10-04
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 182/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book How Art Can Be Thought written by Al-An (Allan) deSouza. This book was released on 2018-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What terms do we use to describe and evaluate art, and how do we judge if art is good, and if it is for the social good? In How Art Can Be Thought Allan deSouza investigates such questions and the popular terminology through which art is discussed, valued, and taught. Adapting art viewing to contemporary demands within a rapidly changing world, deSouza outlines how art functions as politicized culture within a global industry. In addition to offering new pedagogical strategies for MFA programs and the training of artists, he provides an extensive analytical glossary of some of the most common terms used to discuss art while focusing on their current and changing usage. He also shows how these terms may be crafted to new artistic and social practices, particularly in what it means to decolonize the places of display and learning. DeSouza's work will be invaluable to the casual gallery visitor and the arts professional alike, to all those who regularly look at, think about, and make art—especially art students and faculty, artists, art critics, and curators.

Is Art Good for Us?

2002 Art

Author : Joli Jensen
Release : 2002
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 417/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Is Art Good for Us? written by Joli Jensen. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the arts good for us? This book questions our taken-for-granted assumptions about the transformational powers of high culture by critiquing an instrumental American heritage of beliefs about the arts. Jensen argues that faith in high culture's unproven ability to transform people and society allows social critics to keep faith with the idea of a democratic society while deploring popular culture. Employing perspectives from Tocqueville and Dewey, she argues that the arts are good, but they don't do good. Instead of expecting the arts to improve things (and blaming the media for ruining them) we need to recognize that it is up to us, not "the arts" to make the world a better place.

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