Sommer The Work of Art in the World

Civic Agency and Public Humanities
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7712-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

The Work of Art in the World offers a celebration of socially engaged art that develops momentum and meaning as it circulates through society and an impassioned call for citizens to collaborate in the co-creation of a more just and more beautiful world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sommer, Doris

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xv

Prologue. Welcome Back 1

1. From the Top: Government-Sponsored Creativity 15

2. Press Here: Cultural Acupuncture and Civic Stimulation 49

3. Art and Accountability 81

4. Pre-Texts: The Arts Interpret 107

5. Play Drive in the Hard Drive: Schiller's Poetics of Politics 135

Notes 157

Bibliography 193

Index 215

Über Autor(innen)

Doris Sommer is the Ira and Jewell Williams Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, where she is Founder and Director of Cultural Agents: Arts and Humanities in Civic Engagement. She is the author of Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education and editor of Cultural Agency in the Americas, both also published by Duke University Press.