Reflections on cultural policy : past, present, and future / edited by Evan Alderson, Robin Blaser, and Harold Coward ; essays by Robin Blaser. [and others].

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Reflections on cultural policy : past, present, and future / edited by Evan Alderson, Robin Blaser, and Harold Coward ; essays by Robin Blaser. [and others].

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194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The recovery of the public world / Robin Blaser --- Culture and empire : patronage and propaganda in the Augustan Age / John Humphrey --- Medieval worldviews and cultural policies / Haijo Westra --- Aesthetic monumentality, technology, and the Renaissance origins of modern picturing / Jonathan Bordo --- Romanticism and the critique of culture : the example of Coleridge's "On the Prometheus of Aeschylus" / Steven E. Cole --- The worldview of William Blake in relation to cultural policy / Hazard Adams --- The role of communications policy in modern culture / Gordon Fearn --- Iran : reaction and revolution in the postmodern period / Anthony Welch --- Modernity, postmodernity, and culture / Barry Cooper --- The artist and postmodern cultural policies / Robert Kroetsch --- Among afterthoughts on this occasion / Robin Blaser.

Summary:

This book looks at the roles various world views have played in generating cultural policies at various times in Western history. Evan Alderson's introduction places the work within its social, political and historical framework. Robin Blaser addresses the problem of how we can begin to locate a responsible cultural position at the present time. The volume's historical progression begins with John Humphrey looking at the relation of arts and state in Imperial Rome. Haijo Westra focusses on the relation of language and culture in the medieval world. Jonathan Bordo examines the emergence of the individually framed picture in the Renaissance. Steven Cole examines the artistic autonomy of English Romanticism. Hazard Adams outlines a conception of cultural policy through William Blake. Cultural policy is brought closer to the Canadian context with Gordon Fearn's discussion of communications policy in Canada. Anthony Welch takes up the process of re-comprehending culture within the revolution of communications by examining revolutionary and pre-revolutionary Iran. The two final essays take up the challenge of positing the hope of the post-modern. Barry Cooper begins his examination of the relevant part of post-modernism in the sixth century A.D. Robert Kroetsch sees only a longing for order that must be abandoned so that we may measure the depth of our uncertainties and learn to converse across them. Robin Blaser reminds us in his "Afterthoughts" that much of our current unease stems, not from too many differences, but from too few.

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ISBN:

088920215X
9780889202153

Subject:

Cultural policy.
Politique culturelle.
Cultuurbeleid.
Wereldbeeld.

Added entries:

Alderson, Evan.
Blaser, Robin.
Coward, Harold G.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 86529
Call No.: ID NX720.R44; ID:93-B1903
Status: Available

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