Resource in "Culture: Beautiful Books"

 

agree with website here these details http://ocenkapnz.ru/

agree with website here these details http://ocenkapnz.ru/

 

 

Resource in "Culture: Beautiful Books"

 

“Artists play a distinctive role in challenging authoritarianism. Art creates pathways for subversion, for political understanding and solidarity among coalition builders... Artists who occupy marginalized social positions can use their art to challenge structures of power."

Why Authoritarians Attack the Arts
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/opinion/why-authoritarians-attack-the-arts.html
By Eve L. Ewing, April 6, 2017, NYT

As Hitler understood, artists play a distinctive role in challenging authoritarianism. Art creates pathways for subversion, for political understanding and solidarity among coalition builders. Art teaches us that lives other than our own have value. Like the proverbial court jester who can openly mock the king in his own court, artists who occupy marginalized social positions can use their art to challenge structures of power in ways that would otherwise be dangerous or impossible.

It’s about control. It’s about creating a society where propaganda reigns and dissent is silenced.

We need the arts because they make us full human beings. But we also need the arts as a protective factor against authoritarianism. In saving the arts, we save ourselves from a society where creative production is permissible only insofar as it serves the instruments of power.

 

 

Resource in "Culture: Beautiful Books"

 

Beautiful Books poster under development

 

 

Resource in "Culture: Beautiful Books"

 

Beautiful Books Goals

Stand up for the idea that beauty, good and truth still exists, and begin to understand what that is

Develop the ability to discriminate between destructive, meaningful and beautiful art, without being prejudiced

Demonstrate that it is possible to stand up for principles without being self-righteous or divisive

Fight destructive, superficial, and nihilistic culture

Find something good, true or beautiful
Show how this is broken and how it can be aspired to or achieved.
This is the last, hardest and most important Beautiful Books goal!

 

 

Resource in "Culture: Beautiful Books"

 

"Here are enshrined the longing of great hearts
And noble things that tower above the tide
The magic word that winged wonder starts
The garnered wisdom that has never died"
Brooklyn Public Library

It almost went without saying, not long ago, that popular culture should involve goodness, beauty, and other virtues. Here is proof of that: inscriptions on major public facilities.

New York Public Library
“A good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm’d and treasur’d up on purpose to a life beyond life.” Sign over the entrance to the New York Public Library reading room.

Portland Public Library steps
"Begin, Experience, Seek, Hope, Explore, Dream, Inquire, Imagine, Discover, Create, Transcend, Become."

The Nobel prize
“To the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work of an idealist tendency.”
Alfred Nobel’s will established in 1896 a prize for literary achievement.

 

 

Resource in "Culture: Beautiful Books"

 

Initial thoughts on how to create a framework for supporting beautiful art and culture

The main value of art lies beyond itself. Art for its own sake, unaware of its effects, is potentially dangerous. It is quite possible that works of art can injure or shatter a person’s spirit. That is why we need a framework for making sense of art and culture, for judging art and holding accountable artists and those who support art for the ramifications of what they are doing.
How do you know the power of a work of art? We can establish guidelines, but everyone has to do the work themselves. You must try to sense the effect, what it does to you and how it makes you feel. Does it inflame your ego? Does it magnify what is fleeting? Does it make you compare yourself to something inane? Or does it recognize the part of you that you admire?
It's not easy, but it's necessary. There are great dangers along this bath (bigotry, ideology, etc). It's not a framework but a journey, in which we agree to aspire to, to look for, focusing and elaborating, implications and [the good]. But our hope is to actually create a culture of care – by standing up for the good, true, beautiful, and sacred, and making artistic creativity of this kind a part of daily life.

High level
Explores conundrums, mysteries.
Expresses these transcendent qualities: beauty, truth, good, love, and the sacred.
Nourishes these personal qualities: Purity, depth, inwardness, awareness, holiness, integrity, honesty, faith, compassion, commitment, care, autonomy.
Effect: Recognizes your whole self, and calls you to your higher nature.
(They also oppose superficiality, degradation, and manipulation.)

Mediocre level
Works as entertainment. Delight, gratitude, tell a story, support, console
Superficial
Vulgar
Magnification of the profane, superficial, and material. Life is entertainment, and art is distraction from what is transcendent and eternal. Ignorant, one-sided, and ideological.
Personal qualities: Greed, narcissism, self-interest, hard-heartedness, isolation, and sanctimony.
Effect: Diminishes the ability to perceive realities outside of oneself. Insensitivity.

Low level
Degenerate
Appeals to these realities: the ugly, the false, hatred, and evil.
Magnifies these personal qualities: bigotry, destructiveness, and sadism.
Effect: Destruction of the capacity to see what is good: Degradation and nihilism.
‘Superstition, witch hunts, torture, and a multitude of other forms of cruelty or traditional folly.’ Schweitzer

 

 

Resource in "Culture: Beautiful Books"

 

Go Here To Review Our Service

Hi,

Thelocation3 is a website that collects opinions from webmasters/bloggers/business owners for Bing, Bluehost, etc.

We are looking for people like you to test our website.

They spend *,000,000,000 dollars each year collecting data, and then improving their products.
Thelocation3 pays to each member $ *** daily for their opinions.

Interested? Click here: https://www.thelocation3.com/paidsurvey

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Debbie Tanner

^^^^^^^^
Unsubscribe: https://www.thelocation3.com/unsubscribe

Go Here To Review Our Service

Hi,

Thelocation3 is a website that collects opinions from webmasters/bloggers/business owners for Bing, Bluehost, etc.

We are looking for people like you to test our website.

They spend *,000,000,000 dollars each year collecting data, and then improving their products.
Thelocation3 pays to each member $ *** daily for their opinions.

Interested? Click here: https://www.thelocation3.com/paidsurvey

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Debbie Tanner

^^^^^^^^
Unsubscribe: https://www.thelocation3.com/unsubscribe