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Engaged with the Arts - Writings from the Frontline (Hardcover)
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Engaged with the Arts - Writings from the Frontline (Hardcover)
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John Tusa has been Managing Director of London's Barbican Centre
for more than a decade. In that time, he has been a notable
controversialist, speaking up for the need for the arts, defending
their achievements and arguing for more funding. This selection of
John Tusa's passionately argued, candid and challenging essays on
the arts in Britain today is informed by a lifetime's experience of
the arts and a current position at the centre of the British arts
scene. Tusa seeks out the ways in which the arts can be made to
blossom in this cultural and political climate, with cuts in arts
funding ever threatened. His subjects include the art of living
without objectives, and whether leadership in the arts is a mystery
or good sense. He tells the true story of arts philanthropy and
offers more personal pieces, for example on the great power of
music. He also presents a light hearted 'ABC of the ARTS' and
imagines what Ten Commandments for the Arts might look like. His
own philosophy, which informs his successful management of the
Barbican, is refreshing and instructive and he of course looks to
the future with prescience. Most of all his is a call for us
urgently to think about why art matters so crucially for us all.
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