Art And Survival: In Dialogue

IN DIALOGUE:
ON THE INTERFACE BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGY & CULTURE: A Dialogue with Michael L. Penn, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at Franklin & Marshall College

by Keith R. McKinley
Photographs by Ruth Naomi Floyd

PART I: CULTURE AS THE SYMPTOM OR THE SIGN OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITION OF A PEOPLE

"When the art is superficial, trivial, based fundamentally on gratifying the senses, we know that the people have, in a certain sense, strayed from some core sense of their humanity."

PART II: THE IMPACT OF MARKET VALUES UPON HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY

" . . . the value structure that animates a culture determines ultimately, the health of the culture and the health of the people who participate in that culture."

PART III: ON THE MONOPOLISTIC CONTROL OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF CULTURAL INFORMATION

"The community has an awesome responsibility for creating context, for creating places in which people who are true artists can express themselves. That has to be part of the analysis. Otherwise, we are powerless, helpless victims."

PART IV: ON PRESERVING CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN A GLOBAL WORLD

"Life is not possible within the context of homogeneity. The greater the diversity, the greater the possibility of life."

PART V: BIBLIOGRAPHY

Keith R. McKinley's selected educational references.