Celebrating Pluralism
Celebrating Pluralism

Author: F. Graeme Chalmers

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 0892363932

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“Educational trends will change and research agendas will shift, but art teachers in public institutions will still need to educate all students for multicultural purposes,” argues Chalmers in this fifth volume in the Occasional Papers series. Chalmers describes how art education programs promote cross-cultural understanding, recognize racial and cultural diversity, enhance self-esteem in students’ cultural heritage, and address issues of ethnocentrism, stereotyping, discrimination, and racism. After providing the context for multicultural art education, Chalmers examines the implications for art education of the broad themes found in art across cultures. Using discipline-based art education as a framework, he suggests ways to design and implement a curriculum for multicultural art education that will help students find a place for art in their lives. Art educators will find Celebrating Pluralism invaluable in negotiating the approach to multicultural art education that makes the most sense to their students and their communities.

Art and Pluralism
Art and Pluralism

Author: Nigel Whiteley

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 539

ISBN-13: 1846316456

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Lawrence Alloway (1926–90) was one of the most influential and widely respected art writers of the postwar years. A key interpreter of pop art, abstraction, and land art, he was also involved with the realist revival and the early feminist movement in art. Art and Pluralism provides close and critical readings of Alloway's writings and sets his work in the context of the London and New York art worlds from the 1950s to the early 1980s. Nigel Whiteley underlines the particular importance of pluralism and its relationship with the artistic value systems that bookended it—formalism and postmodernism—shedding new light on postwar visual culture as a whole.

Art Theory for a Global Pluralistic Age
Art Theory for a Global Pluralistic Age

Author: Steven Félix-Jäger

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-12-02

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 3030297063

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This book extends a theory of art that addresses the present era’s shift towards global pluralism. By focusing on extrinsic rather than intrinsic qualities of art, this book helps viewers evaluate art across cultural boundaries. Art can be universally classified by an evaluation of its guiding narrative, and can be understood and judged through hermeneutical methods. Since artists engage culture through various local, transnational, and emerging global narratives, it is difficult to decipher what standards are used for evaluation, and which authoritative body evaluates the work. This book implements a narrative-hermeneutical approach to properly classify an artwork and establish its meaning and value.

The Pluralist Era
The Pluralist Era

Author: Corinne Robins

Publisher: New York : Harper & Row

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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Robins examines the major art movements in the 1970s and covers artists and their works from both a chronological and a socio-critical point of view. She offers positive comment on the New York Soho scene, process and conceptual art, the raised perceptions on the art of black artists and women artists, earth sculptures, site works, installations, pattern and decorative art, the return to representation, the continu ing presence of abstraction and the role of photography and video. The book includes works by 77 artists. ISBN 0-06-430137-0 (pbk.) : $10.95 (For use only in the library).

Art and Pluralism
Art and Pluralism

Author: Nigel Whiteley

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2012-08-03

Total Pages: 539

ISBN-13: 1781386145

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This book examines the writings of Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990), one of the most influential and widely-respected art writers of the post-War years. It provides a close and critical reading of his writings, and sets his work in the cultural and political context of the London and New York art worlds of the 1950s to the early 1980s.

Beauty and the End of Art
Beauty and the End of Art

Author: Sonia Sedivy

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1474255760

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Beauty and the End of Art shows how a resurgence of interest in beauty and a sense of ending in Western art are challenging us to rethink art, beauty and their relationship. By arguing that Wittgenstein's later work and contemporary theory of perception offer just what we need for a unified approach to art and beauty, Sonia Sedivy provides new answers to these contemporary challenges. These new accounts also provide support for the Wittgensteinian realism and theory of perception that make them possible. Wittgenstein's subtle form of realism explains artworks in terms of norm governed practices that have their own varied constitutive norms and values. Wittgensteinian realism also suggests that diverse beauties become available and compelling in different cultural eras and bring a shared 'higher-order' value into view. With this framework in place, Sedivy argues that perception is a form of engagement with the world that draws on our conceptual capacities. This approach explains how perceptual experience and the perceptible presence of the world are of value, helping to account for the diversity of beauties that are available in different historical contexts and why the many faces of beauty allow us to experience the value of the world's perceptible presence. Carefully examining contemporary debates about art, aesthetics and perception, Beauty and the End of Art presents an original approach. Insights from such diverse thinkers as Immanuel Kant, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Arthur Danto, Alexander Nehamas, Elaine Scarry and Dave Hickey are woven together to reveal how they make good sense if we bring contemporary theory of perception and Wittgensteinian realism into the conversation.

Revealing Art
Revealing Art

Author: Matthew Kieran

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0415278538

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Revealing Art is a stimulating and lucid book about why art is important and the role of the imagination in art, illustrated with colour and black-and-white plates of examples from Michaelangelo to Matisse and from Poussin to Pollock.

The Madonna of the Future
The Madonna of the Future

Author: Arthur C. Danto

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2001-09-04

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780520230026

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Danto writes about the contemporary art to be seen in museums and galleries, placing it in the context of the history of modern art and of current debates about essential ideas in our society.

Art in Public
Art in Public

Author: Lambert Zuidervaart

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-11-15

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 113949175X

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This book examines fundamental questions about funding for the arts: why should governments provide funding for the arts? What do the arts contribute to daily life? Do artists and their publics have a social responsibility? Challenging questionable assumptions about the state, the arts and a democratic society, Lambert Zuidervaart presents a vigorous case for government funding, based on crucial contributions the arts make to civil society. He argues that the arts contribute to democratic communication and a social economy, fostering the critical and creative dialogue that a democratic society needs. Informed by the author's experience leading a non-profit arts organisation as well as his expertise in the arts, humanities and social sciences, this book proposes an entirely new conception of the public role of art with wide-ranging implications for education, politics and cultural policy.

After Pluralism
After Pluralism

Author: Courtney Bender

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2010-11-02

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0231527268

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The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine that is embedded within a range of political, civic, and cultural institutions. Their critique considers how religious difference is framed as a problem that only pluralism can solve. Working comparatively across nations and disciplines, the essays in After Pluralism explore pluralism as a "term of art" that sets the norms of identity and the parameters of exchange, encounter, and conflict. Contributors locate pluralism's ideals in diverse sites Broadway plays, Polish Holocaust memorials, Egyptian dream interpretations, German jails, and legal theories and demonstrate its shaping of political and social interaction in surprising and powerful ways. Throughout, they question assumptions underlying pluralism's discourse and its influence on the legal decisions that shape modern religious practice. Contributors do more than deconstruct this theory; they tackle what comes next. Having established the genealogy and effects of pluralism, they generate new questions for engaging the collective worlds and multiple registers in which religion operates.