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To: JohnM who wrote (40251)	8/27/2002 6:40:47 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

RE culture: Found a couple of links (out of many) that you will probably enjoy. Also in view of one of your thoughts (bottom of your notes)...just wondered if Abraham Lincoln would hold much sway today....especially if credentials were the criteria before his Presidency. Here a couple of the things I found.... Exploring Art and Culture in the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Paper given by Jules D. Prown Conference on Teacher Programs in Art Museums Session on Consortiums and Collaborations National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. October 22-23, 1992 yale.edu The theory, in brief, derives from the idea that all artifacts that is, all human-made objects, including works of art are fragments of history that embody the beliefs of the culture that produced them. They are historical events things that happened in the past but, unlike other historical events, continue to exist in the present. They can therefore be reexperienced, affording a special mode of non-verbal, affective access to other cultures. Pedagogically, this provides an opportunity for making other times and other places, other ways of life and thought, more comprehensible to students who have difficulty absorbing verbal information, or who are immediately dismissive of cultures different from their own. It also enables young people who lack verbal or mathematical skills to extract information from things, whether about their own family, their own community, or their own social, religious or ethnic heritage. Four out of five school children in New Haven are from minority groups, and units on African, Hispanic, preColumbian and Native American cultures are particularly popular. Found on another site: Jules Prown BA, Lafayette College ('51) MA, Harvard University, Fine Arts ('53) MA, University of Delaware, Early American Culture ('56) Fellowship in Winterthur Program ('54-'56) PhD, Harvard University,('61) MA (Hon.), Yale University ('71) DFA (Hon.), Lafayette College ('79) Paul Mellon Professor Emeritus 8888888888888 And.......another....You probably know this man About the Author Geoffrey Hartman is Sterling Professor (Emeritus) of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University. His books include Easy Pieces (Columbia); Holocaust Rememberance: The Shapes of Memory; Minor Prophecies; The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars; and, most recently, The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust. columbia.edu For Hartman, the fusion of culture and politics, of whatever ideology, is disastrous. At a time of abstraction, fragmentation, and alienation, art and literature offer wholeness and meaning. But the promise is frought with danger, Hartman argues, in a provocative discussion of the uses of culture as exemplified in the Romantic legacy. He pays special attention to literature's role in reconnecting us to the world. The choice is ours: Wordsworth or Heidegger, literature as shared experience or as reactionary ideology. Hartman ranges widely in these elegant pages. He confronts the shock to the universalistic sense of culture from the Holocaust, as well as the problematic responses of such critic as Adorno and Derrida; explores the poetry of Wordsworth both as a diagnostic and a counter-model to the desensitization of modern life; and addresses the impact of politics of inclusion and diversity on the claims of high culture. Perhaps Hartman's most publicly engaged book, The Fateful Question of Culture embraces both the masterworks of European literature and art and the signs and symbols of popular media and daily life. It is a powerful reaffirmation of the liberating discourses that have always been at the very center of the Western tradition.