| Description |
viii, 220 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger and M. Richard Zinman -- Democracy and Culture / Robert Brustein -- Movies: The Democratic Art? / John Simon -- Modern Democracy and the Novel / A. B. Yehoshua -- Museums and the Thirsting Millions / Arthur C. Danto -- Architecture and Democracy, Democracy and Architecture / Carroll William Westfall -- Serious Music / John Rockwell -- Blues to Be Constitutional / Stanley Crouch -- The Old, Weird America / Greil Marcus -- Suiting Everyone: Fashion and Democracy / Anne Hollander -- Democracy, Reality, and the Media: Educating the Ubermensch / Gianni Vattimo -- Tubular Nonsense: How Not to Criticize Television / Martha Bayles -- Waiting for Godor and the End of History: Postmodernism as a Democratic Aesthetic / Paul A. Cantor |
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Introduction / Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger and M. Richard Zinman -- Democracy and Culture / Robert Brustein -- Movies: The Democratic Art? / John Simon -- Modern Democracy and the Novel / A. B. Yehoshua -- Museums and the Thirsting Millions / Arthur C. Danto --Architecture and Democracy, Democracy and Architecture / Carroll William Westfall -- Serious Music / John Rockwell -- Blues to Be Constitutional / Stanley Crouch -- The Old, Weird America / Greil Marcus -- Suiting Everyone: Fashion and Democracy / Anne Hollander -- Democracy, Reality, and the Media: Educating the Ubermensch / Gianni Vattimo -- Tubular Nonsense: How Not to Criticize Television / Martha Bayles -- Waiting for Godor and the End of History: Postmodernism as a Democratic Aesthetic / Paul A. Cantor |
| Summary |
In this book, some of our most prominent cultural critics explore the relationships between culture and politics as played out in the world of novels, television, museums, and even fashion. The authors - John Simon, Greil Marcus, Arthur C. Danto, and other well-known commentators from across the political spectrum - examine the arts in their relation to democracy and consider whether and how they serve one another |
| Notes |
Essays collected here were delivered as papers at a conference sponsored by the body Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy, held in April 1995 at Michigan State University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-206) and index |
| Subject |
Arts and society -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
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Arts -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
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Democracy -- United States -- Congresses.
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Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Melzer, Arthur M.
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Weinberger, Jerry, 1944-
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Zinman, M. Richard.
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Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy.
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| LC no. |
98030417 |
| ISBN |
0801435412 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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