Drawing Us In
Subtitle: Essays on How We Experience Visual Art (Beacon Anthology)
Contributors: Deborah Chasman (Editor); Edna Chiang (Editor)
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: April 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780807066065
Subjects: Theory of art; Essays; Art And Society; Art Appreciation; Literary Collections; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Experience; Criticism - General; Fine Arts; Art / General
Description: "What do we gain from visual art and what do we stand to lose without it?".

"For many of the contributors, visual art makes us see what we haven't seen before; it surprises, transforms, and comforts us. There are other perspectives too: critic Dave Hickey claims that art has no deep moral purpose, and that the artist should not have to work under the burden. Art, he writes, is just a whole lot of fun and therein lies its revolutionary potential.

For anyone who has felt moved by the visual, this collection offers a range of views on how and why art matters in our psychic, social, and political lives."--BOOK JACKET.