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Aesthetic Evangelists -Stephanie Rios

Key Ideas That I Found Interesting:
  1. "A very different kind of "collaboration" would arise out of a project produced with a politically-coherent community." 
  2. "Each new site, issue, or community, becomes another opportunity to reaffirm their social transcendence through the universal language of art, which can bridge cultural differences and heal social divisions."
  3. "The "community" in community-based public art often, although clearly not always, refers to individuals marked as culturally, economically, or socially different either from the artist or from the audience for the particular project."

Questions:

  1. "Disavows the autonomous development of the community." (Why were the words in this sentence chosen? What impact do they have?)
  2. How can an artist present their artwork to a community that they do not identify with and at the same time, not come off as disrespectful?
  3.  Can all types of art actually "bridge cultural differences and heal social divisions?"


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