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The Work of Art in the World - Civic Agency and Public Humanities (Hardcover, New)
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Celebrating art and interpretation that take on social challenges,
Doris Sommer steers the humanities back to engagement with the
world. The reformist projects that focus her attention develop
momentum and meaning as they circulate through society to inspire
faith in the possible. Among the cases that she covers are top-down
initiatives of political leaders, such as those launched by Antanas
Mockus, former mayor of Bogota, Colombia, and also bottom-up
movements like the Theatre of the Oppressed created by the
Brazilian director, writer, and educator Augusto Boal. Alleging
that we are all cultural agents, Sommer also takes herself to task
and creates Pre-Texts, an international arts-literacy project that
translates high literary theory through popular creative practices.
The Work of Art in the World is informed by many writers and
theorists. Foremost among them is the eighteenth-century German
poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, who remains an eloquent
defender of art-making and humanistic interpretation in the
construction of political freedom. Schiller's thinking runs
throughout Sommer's modern-day call for citizens to collaborate in
the endless co-creation of a more just and more beautiful world.
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