Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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The gorgeous silliness of ballet
'Ballet is a subtle and rather inobvious art; it requires patience and belief and a certain knowledge...'
Andrew O'Hagan,
Telegraph, 12 December 2004
Capturing Cultural Value
The value of culture cannot be expressed only with statistics. Audience numbers give us a poor picture of how culture enriches us.
John Holden,
Demos, December 2004
Enlightenment museums: universal or merely global?
[Although] a universal museum could be invaluable in a world full of conflict and misunderstanding, the credibility of the idea is undermined by its being deployed chiefly as a defense against repatriation claims.
Mark O’Neill,
museum and society, November 2004
The Philosophy of History
Hegel develops the concept of history as a rational proceeding, rather than a series of random events.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Dover Publications,
1 November 2004
The Arts and the Creation of Mind
Learning in and through the arts can develop complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this engrossing book. Offering a rich array of examples, he describes different approaches to the teaching of the arts and shows how these refine forms of thinking that are valuable in dealing with our daily life
Elliot W. Eisner, Yale University Press,
22 October 2004
Boy in a bubble
By constantly wiring ourselves up to our iPods, are we becoming oblivious to our surroundings?
Gabriel Sherman,
Guardian, 23 September 2004
Hollywood's generation gap
Anyone can be a movie star-heck, Adam Sandler is a movie star- but true screen icons are blessed with an ethereal sparkle beyond time that earns them a permanent place in the cultural firmament, and our imaginations
Renee Graham,
Boston Globe, 12 July 2004
Ripping yarns
On his new LP, Mike Skinner - aka The Streets - talks about eating a burger, washing his jeans and charging up his mobile. Literature professor John Sutherland says these narratives put him up there with Dostoevsky and Pepys
John Sutherland,
Guardian, 30 April 2004
Art for inclusion's sake
Cultural diversity policy substitutes political goals for artistic standards.
Josie Appleton,
spiked, 7 April 2004
Out with ye olde classics?
Will to Wonka, English is thriving but it isn't all rosy
Claire Sanders,
Times Higher Education, 12 March 2004
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