6. Uniting the Arts and the Academy. A History of the CAA Annual Conference

This introduction surveys the rise of the history of emotions as a field and the role of the arts in such developments. Reflecting on the foundational role of the arts in the early emotion-oriented histories of Johan Huizinga and Jacob Burkhardt, as well as the concerns about methodological impressionism that have sometimes arisen in response to such studies, the introduction considers how intensive engagements with the arts can open up new insights into past emotions while still being historically and theoretically rigorous. Drawing on a wide range of emotionally charged art works from different times and places—including the novels of Carson McCullers and Harriet Beecher-Stowe, the private poetry of neo-Confucian Chinese civil servants, the photojournalism of twentieth-century war correspondents, and music from Igor Stravinsky to the Beatles—the introduction proposes five ways in which art in all its forms contributes to emotional life and consequently to emotional histories: first, by incubating deep emotional experiences that contribute to formations of identity; second, by acting as a place for the expression of private or deviant emotions; third, by functioning as a barometer of wider cultural and attitudinal change; fourth, by serving as an engine of momentous historical change; and fifth, by working as a tool for emotional connection across communities, both within specific time periods but also across them. The introduction finishes by outlining how the special issue's five articles and review section address each of these categories, while also illustrating new methodological possibilities for the field.

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Reuniting the Arts: Notes on the History of an Idea

19th-Century Music ◽

10.1525/ncm.1994.18.1.02a00020 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 3-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wolfgang Domling

Keyword(s):

The Arts ◽

History Of

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Conclusion

10.1093/oso/9780199342235.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Andrea Harris

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

New York City ◽

Driving Force ◽

George Balanchine ◽

Current State ◽

The Arts ◽

History Of ◽

Lincoln Center

The Conclusion briefly examines the current state of the New York City Ballet under the auspices of industrial billionaire David H. Koch at Lincoln Center. In so doing, it to introduces a series of questions, warranting still more exploration, about the rapid and profound evolution of the structure, funding, and role of the arts in America through the course of the twentieth century. It revisits the historiographical problem that drives Making Ballet American: the narrative that George Balanchine was the sole creative genius who finally created an “American” ballet. In contrast to that hagiography, the Conclusion reiterates the book’s major contribution: illuminating the historical construction of our received idea of American neoclassical ballet within a specific set of social, political, and cultural circumstances. The Conclusion stresses that the history of American neoclassicism must be seen as a complex narrative involving several authors and discourses and crossing national and disciplinary borders: a history in which Balanchine was not the driving force, but rather the outcome.

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Impact of the 2020 crises on the arts and culture in the United States: The effect of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement in historical context

International Journal of Cultural Property ◽

10.1017/s0940739120000326 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 449-465

Author(s):

Stanley N. Katz ◽

Leah Reisman

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Historical Context ◽

The United States ◽

Cultural Organizations ◽

Black Lives Matter ◽

The Arts ◽

Arts And Culture ◽

History Of ◽

Cultural Sector ◽

The Impact

AbstractThis article discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement on the arts and cultural sector in the United States, placing the 2020 crises in the context of the United States’s historically decentralized approach to supporting the arts and culture. After providing an overview of the United States’s private, locally focused history of arts funding, we use this historical lens to analyze the combined effects of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement on a single metropolitan area – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We trace a timeline of key events in the national and local pandemic response and the reaction of the arts community to the Black Lives Matter movement, arguing that the nature of these intersecting responses, and their fallout for the arts and cultural sector, stem directly from weaknesses in the United States’s historical approach to administering the arts. We suggest that, in the context of widespread organizational vulnerability caused by the pandemic, the United States’s decentralized approach to funding culture also undermines cultural organizations’ abilities to respond to issues of public relevance and demonstrate their civic value, threatening these organizations’ legitimacy.

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Hooke recommemorated

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.1996.0013 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 139-140

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

Royal Society ◽

Early Years ◽

Domestic Life ◽

Robert Hooke ◽

Arts And Sciences ◽

Personal Interaction ◽

The Arts ◽

Christ Church ◽

History Of

Richard Nichols, The Diaries of Robert Hooke, The Leonardo of London, 1635-1703 . Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild, 1994, Pp. 185, £15.00. ISBN 0- 86332-930-6. Richard Nichols is a science master turned historian of science who celebrates in this book Robert Hooke’s contributions to the arts and sciences. The appreciation brings together comments from Hooke’s Diaries , and other works, on each of his main enterprises, and on his personal interaction with each of his principal friends and foes. Further references to Hooke and his activities are drawn from Birch’s History of the Royal Society, Aubrey’s Brief Lives , and the Diaries of Evelyn and of Pepys. The first section of the book, ‘Hooke the Man’, covers his early years of education at home in Freshwater, at Westminster school and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he soon joined the group of experimental philosophers who set him up as Curator of the Royal Society and Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, Bishopsgate. Hooke’s domestic life at Gresham College is described - his intimate relationships with a series of housekeepers, including his niece, Grace Hooke, and his social life at the College and in the London coffee houses.

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Novel Approaches for Assessing the Preservation of Historic Silks: A Case Study of the First Ladies' Gowns

MRS Bulletin ◽

10.1557/s0883769400043256 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 39-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Mary Becker ◽

Noreen Tuross

Keyword(s):

American History ◽

The United States ◽

National Museum ◽

First Ladies ◽

Current Conservation ◽

Unique Challenge ◽

Conservation Project ◽

The Arts ◽

History Of ◽

Analytical Approaches

Friable natural products are often used in articles of personal adornment, and the perishable nature of these materials presents a unique challenge to museums. At the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, a collection of gowns worn by the First Ladies of the United States is a popular display of historical and sentimental import. Opened to the public on February 1, 1914, fifteen gowns were displayed as part of a “Period Costumes“ exhibit in the U.S. National Museum (now known as the Arts and Industries Building). Within just a few years, the exhibit was recognized as “one of the most interesting and popular in the Museum.” A First Ladies' Hall was created in the mid-1950s to exhibit the gown collection in period room settings. This design theme continued when the Hall moved to the Museum of American History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) in 1964. The First Ladies' Hall was closed for renovation in 1987, allowing the curatorial staff to reassess the collection's use and conservators to perform long overdue examinations and treatments. Reinstallation of the exhibit is scheduled for spring 1992.The First Ladies' conservation project includes a history of each gown's use and exhibition as related to its physical condition and also includes stabilization treatments to meet the demands of future display. The current conservation project provided an unusual opportunity for extensive research into fabric deterioration of a popular and important collection. The goals of the research are twofold: first, to determine each object's state of preservation by studying the effectivenss of several analytical approaches with minimal destructive sampling and, second, to begin investigating the mechanisms involved in the degradation of silk, the material predominant in this collection.

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Understanding Culture

10.5117/9789089649911 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Babette Hellemans

Keyword(s):

Gender Studies ◽

Duration Analysis ◽

International Perspective ◽

Theoretical Background ◽

The Arts ◽

Long Duration ◽

Historical Investigation ◽

History Of ◽

And Gender ◽

The Relationship

This pioneering textbook explores the theoretical background of cultural variety, both in past and present. How is it possible to study 'culture' when the topic covers the arts, literature, movies, history, sociology, anthropology and gender studies? Understanding Culture examines the evolution of a concept with varying meanings depending on changing norms. Offering a long-duration analysis of the relationship between culture and nature, this book looks at the origins of studying culture from an international perspective. Using examples from the several scholarly traditions in the practice of studying culture, Understanding Culture is a key introduction to the area. It identifies the history of interpreting culture as a meeting point between the long-standing historical investigation of 'humanism' and 'postmodernism' and is a comprehensive resource for those who wish to further their engagement with culture as both a historical and contemporary phenomenon.

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Art and Social Work: History and Collaborative Possibilities for Interdisciplinary Synergy

Research on Social Work Practice ◽

10.1177/1049731517733804 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 29 (6) ◽

pp. 698-707 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Laura Burney Nissen

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Work History ◽

Psychology Education ◽

Call To Action ◽

The Arts ◽

The Social ◽

Individual Family ◽

History Of ◽

Social Work History ◽

Current Potential

This article will stretch the boundaries of the interdisciplinary lens to consider the history of and current potential for the arts to enhance, advance, and amplify individual, family, and community social change goals of the social work profession. To begin, consider the following questions: What would inspire artists and social workers to intentionally work together to reveal new strengths, energy, and capacity in the areas we care about? What do the arts have to teach the profession of social work and vice versa? How have the arts already played a role in the profession, and what has impaired social work’s ability to make greater use of the strengths associated with the arts? How have other professions (public health, psychology, education, and others) incorporated partnerships with the arts? This article concludes with a call to action to advance the potential of the arts in coordination with social work and related disciplines.

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Digital archiving the space and memory of Kyoto across space and time using GIS

Abstracts of the ICA ◽

10.5194/ica-abs-1-166-2019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 1-2

Author(s):

Naomi Kawasumi ◽

Hirotaka Sato ◽

Shunpei Yamamoto ◽

Keiji Yano

Keyword(s):

Urban History ◽

Digital Humanities ◽

Digital Archive ◽

Geospatial Information ◽

Digital Archiving ◽

The Arts ◽

New Knowledge ◽

History Of ◽

Landscape Value ◽

Traditional Arts

Abstract. Digital Humanities (DH) is expected to generate new knowledge within traditional Humanities including history, literature, and the arts. DH utilizes computational media to conduct research on concepts such as consciousness and awareness, then analyzes, integrates and presents the outcomes. GIS has become widespread within DH research (Yano et al. 2011). This study aims to consider the archiving of various information concepting Kyoto using GIS. It also aims to understand landscape value in Kyoto. Since Heian-Kyo, Kyoto has existed for over 1,200 years of history. So, it is necessary to collect various information about Kyoto such as literature, art, maps, and photographs for research on the urban history of Kyoto. The digitalization and construction of a GIS database are useful to preserve and release information about Kyoto.The Digital Archive of the Historical City of Kyoto that we are aiming to produce includes content such as literary works, paintings, photographs, and intangible cultural assets like festivals including the Gion Festival, traditional arts, and memories. Them did not simply listed in a database but had released with geospatial information, such as maps, as a platform linked to place.

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Intellectuals in power: Social patterns in the formative years of second Yugoslavia

Filozofija i drustvo ◽

10.2298/fid1103121b ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 121-135

Author(s):

Dusan Boskovic

Keyword(s):

Political History ◽

Socialist Realism ◽

Social Patterns ◽

The Arts ◽

History Of ◽

Formative Years

Political history of the Second Yugoslavia was continuously sacral, while secularization mainly took place within the arts? domain. The Cominform (Informbiro) and split with the SSR opened up a space for greater freedom of creativity (Kardelj, Djilas, Segedin) and for the abandonment of the socialist realism and its attempt to control the content of art (Zogovic). A third position on literature was promoted by Vladan Desnica.

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