Author: Fred Evans
Publisher: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
ISBN: 9780231187589
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Fred Evans develops philosophical and political criteria for assessing how public art can respond to the fragility of democracy. He calls for considering such artworks as acts of citizenship, pointing to their capacity to resist autocratic tendencies and reveal new dimensions of democratic society.