Against the flow : education, the arts and postmodern culture / / Peter Abbs

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910449986803321
• Autore: Abbs Peter <1942-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-280-07305-5; 0-203-40190-5; 1-134-42949-5; 0-203-41060-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (186 p.)
• Disciplina: 700.71
• Soggetti: Arts - Study and teaching; Postmodernism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The poetics of education; The arts, postmodern culture and the inner dynamic of authentic education; On the spiritual in art, culture and education; The rise and fall of the new arts paradigm in education; The poetics of culture; The three faces of wisdom: literature and the arts as radical routes to understanding; The creative word and the creative life: a cultural map of autobiography from classical Greece to the postmodern crisis; Music, metaphor, meaning: a poetics before and after postmodernism; Thirty-nine notes towards a new metaphysical poetryArt against the Zeitgeist: on the work of four contemporary art-makers; Coda; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: At once provocative and inspiring, Against the Flow is a work of polemic from an internationally respected writer and thinker on arts education. Peter Abbs argues that contemporary education ignores the aesthetic and ethical as a result of being in thrall to such forces as the market economy and managerial and functional dictates. He identifies the present education system as being inimical to creativity and ; authentic learning and instead, narrowly focused on the quantitative measuring of results. This absence of a creative and ethical dimension in education has implications for art m