El arte obra en el mundo

Cultura ciudadana y humanidades públicas

El arte obra en el mundo - Doris Sommer - Ediciones Metales pesados
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Ediciones Metales pesados
Year of publication: 
2020
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Rustic

Celebrating art and performance as practices capable of addressing social challenges is what Doris Sommer proposes in this book. To refresh the humanities' commitment to the world beyond the classroom, throughout the chapters she offers samples of reformist projects that inspire faith in what is possible because they achieve goals that would have been unattainable without art. The cases include top-down initiatives - such as those of Antanas Mockus, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, and bottom-up movements such as the Oppressed Theater created by Brazil's Augusto Boal. Likewise, Sommer's own initiative, Pre-Textos, is a literacy project in areas with few material resources, which relies on popular arts to interpret any text; in this way he develops both intellectual and civic skills.
With the slogan 'we are all cultural agents', "Art works in the world" demonstrates the urge...read more

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Book: El arte obra en el mundo

ISBN: 9789566048060
$560.00