Artistic Citizenship: A Public Voice for the Arts / Edition 1

by Mary Schmidt Campbell

Overview

Artistic Citizenship is a collection of essays by prominent artists and scholars that explores how an artistic community undertakes its engagement with the social world. While art may have expanded the place it occupies in our public lives and civic imaginations, the messages that artists have put before their national audience have often sparked controversy and challenge. This collection of essays, proposes the term "artistic citizenship" to organize this cluster of concepts and issues that pertain to how artists prepare for and participate in civic life. This collection focuses on the ways in which professional artists employ their special training and knowledge not only to make room for art in people's lives but also to use their creativity to address topical issues such as identity, politics, and community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900415978667
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/21/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Mary Schmidt Campbell is Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
Randy Martin is Associate Dean and Professor of Public Policy at NYU.

Table of Contents

Artistic Citizenship: Introduction   Randy Martin     1
The Role of the Arts in a Time of Crisis   Mary Schmidt Campbell     23
A Polity of Its Own Called Art?   Richard Schechner     33
Encounters with Censorship   Ngugi Wa Thiong'o     43
Address to the Students of the Tisch School for the Arts, New York University, September 14, 2001   E. L. Doctorow     51
Responsible Looking   Deborah Willis     59
A Praise of Doubt   Gail Segal     77
Screening Citizens   Toby Miller     97
Patriotism, Fear, and Artistic Citizenship   Robert Stam   Ella Shohat     115
Art for Whose Sake? Artistic Citizenship as an Uncertain Thing   Arvind Rajagopal     137
Public and Violence   George Yudice     151
"'Twixt Cup and Lip": Intentions and Execution of Community-Based Art as Civic Expression   Jan Cohen-Cruz     163
Participating in Artistic Citizenship: Constructing a National Narrative-Considering the Passion of Terri Schiavo   Karen Finley     181
Contributors     197
Index     201