Many Voices, Many Opportunities

Many Voices, Many Opportunities

Author: Clement Alexander Price

Publisher: Americans for the Arts Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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"What is American culture? In Many Voices, Many Opportunities, Clement Alexander Price, Professor of American and Afro-American history at Rutgers University, provides a fresh, historical, fair-minded view of this hotly-argued question. Focusing on arts policy, one of the primary battlegrounds of the multiculturalism controversy, Many Voices, Many Opportunities convinces us that "the swirling debate about the history of American culture and its present character is quite unlike anything in American life since the early years of the civil rights movement."" "Many Voices, Many Opportunities traces the ideas of cultural pluralism back to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when such figures as W. E. B. DuBois asserted that American diversity, rather than creating a harmonious "melting pot," actually brought about struggles among ethnic and racial groups for equal recognition in American culture and the arts. Dr. Price argues for a pluralistic approach to culture and for a definition of national culture that is dynamic rather than rigid. He concludes that we need to change our perception of cultural and artistic worth if cultural pluralism is to succeed."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


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).


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.


Gods in America

Gods in America

Author: Charles L. Cohen

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-09-19

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0199931925

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Religious pluralism has characterized America almost from its seventeenth-century inception, but the past half century or so has witnessed wholesale changes in the religious landscape. Gods in America brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explain the historical roots of these phenomena and assess their impact on modern American society.


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.


Accidental Pluralism

Accidental Pluralism

Author: Evan Haefeli

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2021-04-15

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 022674275X

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The United States has long been defined by its religious diversity and recurrent public debates over the religious and political values that define it. In Accidental Pluralism, Evan Haefeli argues that America did not begin as a religiously diverse and tolerant society. It became so only because England’s religious unity collapsed just as America was being colonized. By tying the emergence of American religious toleration to global events, Haefeli creates a true transnationalist history that links developing American realities to political and social conflicts and resolutions in Europe, showing how the relationships among states, churches, and publics were contested from the beginning of the colonial era and produced a society that no one had anticipated. Accidental Pluralism is an ambitious and comprehensive new account of the origins of American religious life that compels us to refine our narratives about what came to be seen as American values and their distinct relationship to religion and politics.


Cultural Pluralism and the American Idea

Cultural Pluralism and the American Idea

Author: Horace Meyer Kallen

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-01-31

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1512817201

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.


Pluralistic Approaches to Art Criticism

Pluralistic Approaches to Art Criticism

Author: Douglas Emerson Blandy

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9780879725433

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Contributors to this anthology analyze the contemporary academic methods for critiquing art and suggest new ways that might further our understandings of art created by myriad individuals and groups. The essays give readers further insight into a diverse range of artistic creators often overlooked in art world studies.