War - Art and society One (Art Ebook).pdf

Boston Book and Art | 1970 | Pdf | Eng | ISBN10 0843500093 | 96 p | 20.5 MB

Exhibition organized by K. Baynes for the Welsh Arts Council and opened at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales, in Feb. 1969.

The origin of this series of books about the relationship between art and society is to be found in the dissatisfaction felt by the Welsh Arts Council for the traditional kind of art exhibition. Over a number of years the Council has developed an approach to art and design which implies that they can no longer be contained within the meaning of labels like painting or sculpture or craftsmanship. Film, photography and television have found a natural place: so have magazines, advertising, toys, the work of amateurs, seaside souvenirs and a thousand other objects, humble and vulgar as well as grand and noble. A stage has been reached when the Council recognizes that the human phenomenon known as art has countless forms, and arises from equally varied impulses.