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1994-1995
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Anne Hollander
(New York University)

Suiting Everyone: Fashion and Democracy

 

John Simon
(New York Magazine and National Review)

Film: The Democratic Art?

 

Martha Bayles
(Wall Street Journal)

Tubular Nonsense: How Not to Criticize Television

 

Gianni Vattimo
(University of Turin, Italy)

Democracy, The Media, and Popular Culture

 

A.B. Yehoshua
(Haifa University)

Modern Democracy and the Novel: Difficulties in a Love Story

 

CONFERENCE
 

“Democracy and the Arts”

 

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“Democracy and the Arts”

1995 CONFERENCE
 
Democracy and the Arts

Paper: Stanley Crouch (MacArthur Fellow), "Democracy and Jazz"
Responses: Arnold Jay Smith (Peter Levinson Communications) and Kenneth Waltzer (Michigan State University)

Paper: Arthur C. Danto (Columbia University), "The Museum and the Thirsting Millions"
Response: Diane Kelder (City University of New York)

Paper: Derek Walcott (Boston University), "Poetry: A Reading and Discussion"

Paper: Paul A. Cantor (University of Virginia), "Waiting for Godot: the Postmodern, the Posthistorical, and the Aesthetics of Democracy"
Responses: Michael Valdez Moses (Duke University) and Norma Thompson (Yale University)

Paper: Greil Marcus (Artforum and Interview Magazines), "Bob Dylan 1967: the Old, Weird America"

Paper: John Rockwell (Lincoln Center Festival), "Serious Music: How a Democratic Culture Determines Values and is Determined by Them"

Paper: Carroll William Westfall (University of Virginia), "Architecture and Democracy; Democracy and Architecture"
Response: Alan Brangman (Georgetown University)

 

   
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