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Values and Art |
| Section: THE ARTS / PERSPECTIVES |
| Author: James Cooper |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1986 |
| Size: 1,780 Words, 10,894 Characters |
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The inherent longing of mankind to experience idealism and patriotism has held precedence throughout the history of recorded civilization. During the nineteenth century the Germans had a word for it: "Sehen."
In the struggle to unify their nation the collective efforts of the German artists, writers, composers, and intellectuals were greatly responsible for creating a unified national spirit and a cohesive culture strong enough to meld eleven hundred separate principalities and city-states into one huge industrial nation.
A hundred years earlier, a gifted French artist named Jacques--Louis David had similarly electrified his fellow citizens with a series of nationalistic paintings that literally transformed the moral and civic climate of an archaic monarchial society into a moder...
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...l cultural institutions such as the National Endowment for the Arts, that there is a significant new wind blowing and that it is time to change tack, and begin to pay attention to the many realistic artists they have been ignoring for the last decade. It is also a new opportunity for artists to turn toward serious themes that in turn can revitalize the arts and, at the same time, the nation.
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