This note explores the possibilities of a critical regionalist approach to the study of folk
communities through an examination of a community arts organization that imagines and …

This dissertation focuses on developing and furthering curation as a mode of inquiry for the
discipline of communication, and how concepts can lead to action (praxis) for life. It will …

Culture has become a touchstone of interdisciplinary conversation. For readers interested in
sociology, the social sciences and the humanities, this book maps major classical and …

This study suggests an alternative means of evaluating cultural policy by conducting a
process evaluation of the performance of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) from …

This dissertation examines a major transformation in the American experience of the arts
through a close look at live theatrical performance in Minneapolis and St. Paul from the late …

This dissertation addresses the dilemma facing the American studio glass movement after
World War II: Can art be fashioned out of glass, or do the utilitarian associations embedded …

American art criticism between 1865 and 1913 played a central role in the rise of modernism
in the visual arts, as both the originary discourse of modernist aesthetics and the …

Suburbs have long been associated with assumptions and imposed meanings that do not fit
the everyday reality of city life. Very little research has looked at the ways in which they are …

8 Returned to Toronto and again living at home, he still faced an uphill battle getting started
in an art career, and in May 1936 went to work in a northern Ontario mine. In 1937 he …

To learn about the changes taking place in the historical documentary production community
in the United States during a particular moment defined by the downsizing of the NEH, I …