Arts, Community and Cultural Democracy (Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture) - Hardcover

Zuidervaart, Lambert; Luttikhuizen, Henry

 
9780333746912: Arts, Community and Cultural Democracy (Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture)

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This collection of essays explores the role of the arts in shaping contemporary religion and politics. The authors examine the future of viable communities and democratic cultures in a postmodern world. They look at artistic practices and institutions, and how the arts affect the way history is written and interpreted. The book argues that the arts are central to struggles over how society will be shaped in the new millennium.

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LAMBERT ZUIDERVAART is Professor Philosophy at Calvin College and Department Chair from 1991-97. From 1994-98 he served as President of the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he spearheaded the creation of a new contemporary arts centre. Zuidervaart is the author of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory: The Redemption of Illusion, co-author of Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, and the Electronic Media, and co-editor of Pledges of Jubilee: Essays on the Arts and Culture and The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory.HENRY LUTTIKHUIZEN is Associate Professor of Art History at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has two master's degrees, one in philosophical aesthetics and the other in art history, and a doctorate in art history at the University of Virginia. A specialist in both early Netherlandish art and art historiographic methodology, Luttikhuizen has curated exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum and the Muskegon Museum of Art, has lectured frequently on art-historical topics, and has written popular articles on the visual arts for church periodicals. With Lambert Zuidervaart, he is the co-editor of Pledges of Jubilee: Essays on the Arts and Culture.

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