Art in a Democracy

New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1987. Hardcover. VG+ internally but with bumped corners, 3 small scuffs to front cover, and art school ex-lib. markings. Red boards; gilt lettering. xviii + 201 pp. with bw frontis and occasional bw images. Foreword / June King McFee --
Introduction / Doug Blandy andKristin G. Congdon --
Part I. Individual differences, cultural pluralism, and "social role valorization" --
Culturally based versus universally based understanding of art / F. Graeme Chalmers --
Qualifications and contradictions of art museum education in a pluralistic democracy / Karen A. Hamblen --
Masculine bias (truncated) and the relationship between art and democracy / Georgia C. Collins --
Part II. Public dialogue on art --
Art, social action, and the preparation of democratic citizens / Doug Blandy --
Historical participation : toward an understanding of the historian in art education / Paul E. Bolin --
Toward democratic direction of technology / Beverly J. James --
Part III. The citizens's responsibility to individual and group processes --
Why art education is neither socially relevant nor culturally democratic : a contextual analysis / Robert Bersson --
Cultural literacy in art : developing conscious aesthetic choices in art education / Barbara Ann Boyer --
Part IV. Freedom of aesthetic choice in work and play --
Occupational art and occupational influences on aesthetic preferences : a democratic perspective / Kristin G. Congdon --
Making work art and art work : the aesthetic impulse in organizations and education / Michael Owen Jones --
Toward an ecological aesthetic : notes on a "green" frame of mind / Jan J. Jagodzinski --
Part V. Responses to art in a democracy --
Democracy and art, then and now / Mary Ann Stankiewicz --
Misdirections and realignments / Vincent Lanier. (Inventory #: 156858)