Ebook: Stirring Up Seattle: Allied Arts in the Civic Landscape
Author: R. M. Campbell
- Genre: Art
- Tags: Art, History, Nonfiction, ART015020, HIS036110
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: University of Washington Press
- City: Seattle
- Language: English
- epub
In the 1950s, the city of Seattle began a transformation from an insular, provincial outpost to a vibrant and cosmopolitan cultural center. As veteran Seattle journalist R. M. Campbell illustrates in Stirring Up Seattle: Allied Arts in the Civic Landscape, this transformation was catalyzed in part by the efforts of a group of civic arts boosters originally known as �The Beer and Culture Society.� This �merry band� of lawyers, architects, writers, designers, and university professors, eventually known as Allied Arts of Seattle, lobbied for public funding for the arts, helped avert the demolition of Pike Place Market, and were involved in a wide range of crusades and campaigns in support of historic preservation, cultural institutions, and urban livability.