Arts of Engagement

Arts of Engagement
Author: Dylan Robinson,Keavy Martin
Publsiher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2016-07-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781771121712

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Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors here examine the impact of aesthetic and sensory experience in residential school history, at TRC national and community events, and in artwork and exhibitions not affiliated with the TRC. Using the framework of “aesthetic action,” the essays expand the frame of aesthetics to include visual, aural, and kinetic sensory experience, and question the ways in which key components of reconciliation such as apology and witnessing have social and political effects for residential school survivors, intergenerational survivors, and settler publics. This volume makes an important contribution to the discourse on reconciliation in Canada by examining how aesthetic and sensory interventions offer alternative forms of political action and healing. These forms of aesthetic action encompass both sensory appeals to empathize and invitations to join together in alliance and new relationships as well as refusals to follow the normative scripts of reconciliation. Such refusals are important in their assertion of new terms for conciliation, terms that resist the imperatives of reconciliation as a form of resolution. This collection charts new ground by detailing the aesthetic grammars of reconciliation and conciliation. The authors document the efficacies of the TRC for the various Indigenous and settler publics it has addressed, and consider the future aesthetic actions that must be taken in order to move beyond what many have identified as the TRC’s political limitations.

Art And Engagement

Art And Engagement
Author: Arnold Berleant
Publsiher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1993-03-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1566390842

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In this book Arnold Berleant develops a bold alternative to the eighteenth-century aesthetic of disinterestedness. Centering on the notion of participatory engagement in the appreciation of art, he explores its appearance in art and in aesthetic perception, especially during the past century. Aesthetic engagement becomes a key, both on historical and theoretical grounds, to making intelligible our experiences with both contemporary and classical arts. In place of the traditional aesthetic that enjoins the appreciator to adopt a contemplative attitude, distancing the art object in order to ensure its removal from practical uses, Art and Engagement examines the ways in which art entices us into intimate participation in its workings. Beginning with the historical and theoretical underpinnings of the idea of engagement, Berleant focuses on how engagement works as a force in different arts. Successive chapters pursue its influence in landscape painting, architecture and environmental design, literature, music, dance, and film. Art and Engagement argues forcefully for the originality and power of aesthetic perception. Demolishing the conceptual barriers erected by the Western world’s limiting tradition, the book discloses the condition of engagement that has always been present when our aesthetic encounters have been most effective and suggests a new direction for aesthetic inquiry.

Understanding Audience Engagement in the Contemporary Arts

Understanding Audience Engagement in the Contemporary Arts
Author: Stephanie E. Pitts,Sarah M. Price
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2020-09-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781000167351

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Drawing on unique multi-arts, multi-city scholarly research, Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts makes a timely and urgent contribution to debates about the place of arts and culture in contemporary society. The authors critically interrogate the challenges of access, diversity, privilege and responsibility in contemporary art. Asking who benefits from, pays for and consumes the arts, the book highlights fresh, forward-thinking audience and organisational attitudes that show the potential of live arts engagement to contribute to engaged citizenship. Complemented by comparative global analysis, the cutting-edge insights in this book are relevant for interdisciplinary researchers across audience studies and beyond. Enhanced by a new framework for the understanding audience engagement, the book is relevant to scholars, policymakers and reflective practitioners across the spectrum of arts and cultural industries management. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license here.

Acts of Engagement

Acts of Engagement
Author: Michael Brenson
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0742529827

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Addresses the fundamental humanity and necessity of the visual arts : what they are about, why artists are indispensible, and why art and artists matter.

The Art of Engagement

The Art of Engagement
Author: Elaine Lally,Ien Ang,Kay Anderson
Publsiher: University of Western Australia Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: UCBK:C096983540

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"Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art and three cultural institutions in Western Sydney - Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Penrith Visual and Performing Arts and the Campbelltown Arts Centre - have teamed up as 'C3West' to demonstrate that contemporary artists can play a unique role in social innovation eyond the confines of the art world, without giving up artistic value... This collection of essays and documentation puts the C3West experiement in an international context, and invites us to rethink what contemporary art can mean in Australia..."--Back cover.

Art of Engagement

Art of Engagement
Author: Peter Selz,Susan Landauer
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006-01-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520240520

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'Art of Engagement' focuses on the key role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. The book showcases many types of media, including photographs, found objects, drawings and prints, murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performance art, and collage.

Engagement in the City

Engagement in the City
Author: Leigh N. Hersey,Bryna Bobick
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2021-03-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781793633910

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Engagement in the City: How Arts and Culture Impact Development in Urban Areas provides readers with numerous examples of ways that the arts can contribute to community development. Through the diverse backgrounds of its contributing authors - representing artists, art educators, and public administration scholars – the role of arts is explored as a contributing factor in strengthening communities. The book shows that the arts have the potential to positively impact a wide variety of development interests, including economic, education, health, social capital, and of cultural. The book provides strategies and techniques for implementing successful arts-based projects, whether it be through public art initiatives, service-learning opportunities, or the development or cultural districts. Cross-sectoral collaboration is a key in many of these projects, making the book beneficial for artists and community leaders who seek ways to work together to improve their cities.

Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan

Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan
Author: Justin Jesty
Publsiher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2018-09-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781501715068

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Highlighting the transformational nature of the early postwar, Jesty deftly contrasts it with the relative stasis, consolidation, and homogenization of the 1960s.