Author: John CanadayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Artist as a Social Critic
Author: John CanadayThe Artist as Critic
Author: Oscar WildePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226897648
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Random House, [1969]
The Artist as Social Critic
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Metropolitan Seminars in Art.
The Artist as a Social Critic
Author: John CanadayAuthority and Freedom
Author: Jed PerlPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593320050
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
From one of our most widely admired art critics comes a bold and timely manifesto reaffirming the independence of all the arts—musical, literary, and visual—and their unique and unparalleled power to excite, disturb, and inspire us. As people look to the arts to promote a particular ideology, whether radical, liberal, or conservative, Jed Perl argues that the arts have their own laws and logic, which transcend the controversies of any one moment. “Art’s relevance,” he writes, “has everything to do with what many regard as its irrelevance.” Authority and Freedom will find readers from college classrooms to foundation board meetings—wherever the arts are confronting social, political, and economic ferment and heated debates about political correctness and cancel culture. Perl embraces the work of creative spirits as varied as Mozart, Michelangelo, Jane Austen, Henry James, Picasso, and Aretha Franklin. He contends that the essence of the arts is their ability to free us from fixed definitions and categories. Art is inherently uncategorizable—that’s the key to its importance. Taking his stand with artists and thinkers ranging from W. H. Auden to Hannah Arendt, Perl defends works of art as adventuresome dialogues, simultaneously dispassionate and impassioned. He describes the fundamental sense of vocation—the engagement with the tools and traditions of a medium—that gives artists their purpose and focus. Whether we’re experiencing a poem, a painting, or an opera, it’s the interplay between authority and freedom—what Perl calls “the lifeblood of the arts”—that fuels the imaginative experience. This book will be essential reading for everybody who cares about the future of the arts in a democratic society.
The Art of Social Critique
Author: Shawn Chandler BinghamPublisher:
ISBN: 9780739149232
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
By treading the common ground between the arts, humanities and social sciences, The Art of Social Critiqueraises important questions about the role of art in society, and posits art as a qualitative form of social inquiry. The authors cover a range of artists whose methods of "seeing" social life -- observing, analyzing and portraying society -- draw on the sociological, psychological, historical, and political imagination.
Metropolitan Seminars in Art, Portfolio
Author: John Edwin CanadayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258454715
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Metropolitan Seminars in Art
Author: John CanadayThe New York Artist as Social Critic, 1918-1933
Author: Richard William CoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art and society
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Author: George Grosz