The state and the arts : articulating power and subversion / edited by Judith Kapferer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kapferer, Judith, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and state.

Arts--Political aspects.

Arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Judith Kapferer and her collaborators present an insightful volume that interrogates relations between the state and the arts in diverse national and cultural settings. The authors critique the taken-for-granted assumption about the place of the arts in liberal or social democratic states and the role of the arts in supporting or opposing the ideological work of government and non-government institutions. This innovative volume explores the challenges posed by the state to the arts and by the arts to the state, focusing on several transformations of the interrelations between state and commer

Contents:

Series Page; Table Of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Culture Industries; Chapter 2. The Arts, The State, and the EU; Chapter 3. The End Of Arrogance, the Advent of Persuasion; Chapter 4. Hijacking Cultural Policies; Chapter 5. Constructing a Publib Sphere; Chapter 6. Self and the City; Chapter 7. Political Art, Cultural Policy, and Artistic Agency; Chapter 8. The Feeling For Gray; Chapter 9. The Relevance of Kinship to Moral Reasoning in Culture and in the Philosophy of Ethics; Chapter 10. Buddhism, the Asokan Persona, and the Galactic Polity

Chapter 11. Human Rights, Victimhood, and Impunity

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780857450722

0857450727

OCLC:

873806184