Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose

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© 2005 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 C P 6 5 4 3 2 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Graves, James Bau, 1952– Cultural democracy : the arts, community, and the public purpose / James Bau Graves. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-252-02965-8 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-252-02965-3 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 0-252-07208-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-252-07208-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. United States—Social life and customs— 1971–2. Arts and society—United States. 3. Arts, American. I. Title: Arts, community, and the public purpose. II. Title. E169.04.G739 2004 306.4'7'0973—dc22 2004008912 Frontispiece and title page photos by Phyllis O’Neill. We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class; but we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all men and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having. —Jane Addams, Democracy and Social Ethics, 1913 ✧ ✧ ✧ Right now our boom industry is security . . . because the lines of communication have been shut, and somebody, in order to get your attention, has to plant a car bomb—in your car. What would it mean if those lines of communication were open? If violence was not the only alternative that most people felt they had? What would it mean if those lines of communication permitted difficult things to be said, with art, with care, with grace, with intelligence—and with reciprocity, communication moving in both directions? That’s what artists are here for. We are here to defuse the car bombs. And America is about the democracy that allows both voices—all ten voices, all twenty voices—to be heard. —Peter Sellars, Marketplace radio commentary, 2003 ...