Arts, Community and Cultural Democracy
Published on 14. April 2000
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-333-74691-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays explores the role of the arts in shaping contemporary religion and politics. The authors examine the future of viable communities and democratic cultures in a postmodern world. They look at artistic practices and institutions, and how the arts affect the way history is written and interpreted. The book argues that the arts are central to struggles over how society will be shaped in the new millennium.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line illustrations, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Weight
556 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-74691-2 (9780333746912)
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Persons
LAMBERT ZUIDERVAART is Professor Philosophy at Calvin College and Department Chair from 1991-97. From 1994-98 he served as President of the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he spearheaded the creation of a new contemporary arts centre. Zuidervaart is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory: The Redemption of Illusion, co-author of Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, and the Electronic Media, and co-editor of Pledges of Jubilee: Essays on the Arts and Culture and The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory.HENRY LUTTIKHUIZEN is Associate Professor of Art History at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has two master's degrees, one in philosophical aesthetics and the other in art history, and a doctorate in art history at the University of Virginia. A specialist in both early Netherlandish art and art historiographic methodology, Luttikhuizen has curated exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum and the Muskegon Museum of Art, has lectured frequently on art-historical topics, and has written popular articles on the visual arts for church periodicals. With Lambert Zuidervaart, he is the co-editor of Pledges of Jubilee: Essays on the Arts and Culture.
Content
List of Illustrations - Notes on Contributors - Foreword; R.A. Wells - Acknowledgements - Art is no Fringe: an Introduction; L.Zuidervaart - PART I: POLITICS OF CULTURE - Postmodern Arts and the Birth of a Democratic Culture; L.Zuidervaart - The Global and the Local: Community-based Culture and Economic Justice; B.Goudzwaard & A.Droogers - Music, Marginalization, and Racial Identities; S.R.Vriend - PART II: INSTITUTIONS OF ART - The Necessity of Christian Public Artistry; C.G.Seerveld - Fighting the Musical Museum: Aaron Copland's ' Music and Imagination'; J.DeLapp - Sampling and Society: Intellectual Infringement and Digital Folk Music in John Oswald's 'Plunderphonics'; J.Leach - PART III: QUESTIONS OF INTERPRETATION - Otherwise than Violence: Toward a Hermeneutics of Connection; J.Olthuis - Why Interpretation?; T.deBoer - A Matter of Trust? Law and Democracy as Literary Performance; K.R.denDulk - PART IV: CREATIONS OF HISTORY - Whatever Happened to Primitivism? A Case Study in the Cultural Politics of Art History and Intellectual History; G.Birtwistle - Hogenberg and History: Popular Imagery of the Golden Age and the Making of Dutch History; L.DeBoer - Putting a Face on Justice: Group Portraiture in Early Netherlandish Painting; H.Luttikhuizen - Afterword - Index