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Engaging Art is a book that explores the role of art in modern society, from traditional forms like museum visits to newer forms like music downloading. It features insights from experts in various fields and discusses trends such as technology, audience demographics, and the rise of participatory culture. Commissioned by The Wallace Foundation and conducted by the Curb Center at Vanderbilt University, the book offers a new framework for understanding the changes in America's cultural life over the past fifty years. The authors suggest that a focus on everyday art making and creativity can lead to a bright future for art and support for nonprofit cultural institutions.
Engaging Art explores what it means to participate in the arts in contemporary society - from museum attendance to music downloading. Drawing on the perspectives of experts from diverse fields (including Princeton scholars Robert Wuthnow and Paul DiMaggio; Barry Schwartz, author of
The Paradox of Choice; and MIT scholars Henry Jenkins and Mark Schuster), this volume analyzes key trends involving technology, audience demographics, religion, and the rise of "do-it-yourself" participatory culture. Commissioned by The Wallace Foundation and independently carried out by the Curb Center at Vanderbilt University,
Engaging Art offers a new framework for understanding the momentous changes impacting America's cultural life over the past fifty years. This volume offers suggestive glimpses into the character and consequence of a new engagement with old-fashioned participation in the arts. The authors in this volume hint at a bright future for art and citizen art making. They argue that if we center a new commitment to arts participation in everyday art making, creativity, and quality of life, we will not only restore the lifelong pleasure of homemade art, but will likely seed a new generation of enthusiasts who will support America's signature nonprofit cultural institutions well into the future.
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