Art as Civic Inspiration.
Today as in the past, artists often produce works of art to foster civic agendas of one sort or another, sometimes affirming and sometimes critiquing contemporary attitudes. To what degree is engaging with civically inflected art likely to have the desired impact? We develop an analogy between the w...
| Publicado en: | Empirical Studies of the Arts Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 33 - 42 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jan2020
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