The Arts of Democracy
The Arts of Democracy
Art, Public Culture, and the State
ed. by Casey Nelson Blake

Editor(s)
Casey Nelson Blake
Uitgever, jaar
Washington ; Philidelphia : Woodrow Wilson Center Press : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007
Omvang
360 p., geïllustreerd, 23 cm.
ISBN
9780812240290

"The Arts of Democracy is an ambitious, well-conceived collection of essays that works through 'the relationship between the arts and public life in modern America.' . . . The essays move with precision between artists and agencies and the Cold War policies that shaped both in national and international contexts. Roughly, the narrative arc of the essays contends that the embrace by Cold War-inspired agencies of abstraction and modernism (and jazz) as evidence of American freedom from Soviet-style tyranny produced a singular moment for U.S. public culture that eventually gave way to hostility from the Left and from the Right that has resulted in a desire for a return to 'tradition' in various forms."—The Journal of American History


Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 28 - 2 Kunst in de openbare ruimte ; theorie / Art in Public Space ; Theory
Opmerkingen
Incl. bibliographical references and Index.