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How are you ageing today?
— Art, activism and ageing | | Author(s) | David James Martin |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 22, no 2, 2018 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2018 |
| Pages | pp 121-128 |
| Source | http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/wwop |
| Keywords | Ageism ; Cultural activities ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Pressure groups. |
| Annotation | This paper aims to highlight the need to challenge ageism and to draw attention to how art, especially art activism, can challenge ageism and bring about a new personal understanding of ageing. The paper is a summary of personal reflections by the author. Its findings explore the pervasive, ageist, stereotypical attitudes developed at an early age, also the possible means to challenge and transform thinking through art. Artist and arts organisations, their commissioners and funders could consider focusing on ageing across the life course, and commission and create work which challenges thinking and the status quo on ageing, reflecting society's adjustment to an ageing society. Art and especially art activism could make a fundamental contribution to a raft of strategies, not only to combat ageism, but also assist personal understanding of our ageing. Currently, there are relatively few artists and arts organisation focusing on ageing across the life course. The author states the view that such art activity could assist with new ways of understanding personal ageing and challenge ageist attitudes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180511206 A |
| Classmark | B:TOB: H4: TOB: PME |
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