Engaged with the Arts

ISBN: 9781845114244 出版年：2007 页码：230 John Tusa Bloomsbury Publishing

John Tusa has been Managing Director of London's Barbican Centre fdecade. In that time, he has been a notable controversialist, speaking up for the need for the arts, defending their achievements and arguing for more funding. This selection passionately argued, candid and challenging essays on the arts in Britain today is informed by a lifetime's experience of the arts and a current position at the centre of the BritiTusa seeks out the ways in which tmade to blossom in this cultural and political climate, with cuts in arts funding ever threatened. His subjects include the art of living without objectives, and whether leadership in the arts is a mystery He tells the true story of arts philanthropy and offers more personal pieces, for example on the great power of music. He also presents a light heartARTS' and imagines what Ten Commandments for the Arts might look like. His own philosophy, which informs his successful management of the Barbican, is refreshing and instructive and he of course looks to the future with prescience.Most of all his isurgently to think about why art matters so crucially for us all.