Social and Artistic Integration
The Emergence of Hull-House Theatre
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4550103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stuart J Hecht (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 172 |
| Publication date | 1982-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3207448 |
| OpenAlex | W2333730916 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
chased a mansion in the city's rough Southwest section and there created the HullHouse settlement, a social and educational center for the largely immigrant community. The neighborhood reflected the worst of late 19th century urban conditions. Hull-House served a patchwork of ethnic neighborhoods riddled by poverty, crime, and social problems caused by efforts to acculturate. Jane Addams saw Hull-House as an educational forum, a place for the exchange of ideas and knowledge among the classes for the purpose of bridging social divisions caused by industrialism. This study will examine the process by which theatre emerged as an instrument for social rehabilitation. Paintings, statues and other works of art filled the newly opened settlement house. Art was an intrinsic part of founder Ellen Starr's social philosophy. Starr began programs in the arts at Hull-House as a direct means of overcoming the problems of industrialism. Though influenced by Ruskin, Carlyle and others, her ideas sprang most directly from the English artist and social philosopher William Morris. His ideal was the medieval community in which craft guilds assured a healthy social position for art and beauty. This was not possible in modern industrial society where machines made work drudgery and products rubbish. Morris believed that
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Craft · Settlement (finance · Social position · Social relation · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2010 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |