Editors
Dmitri N. Shalin
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2012
Publication Title
The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State
Publisher
UNLV: Center for Democratic Culture Publications
First page number:
1
Last page number:
11
Abstract
Pablo Picasso once famously observed that “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” As the second edition of the Social Health of Nevada report suggests, it certainly seems like the “dust of daily life” has descended on the souls of this State’s citizens and a thorough washing is necessary. With the economic collapse at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, Nevadans found out very quickly they were neither “protected” nor “immune” from the financial maelstrom that had been unleashed. Having lived in Las Vegas since 1984, I had heard for years that gaming and tourism would “insulate” Nevada from the flux and reflux of the nation’s economic tides. The 2008 “recession” would prove Nevadans wrong concerning the strength and fortitude of their two-dimensional fiscal house.
Keywords
Architects and builders; Art and industry; Art and state--Economic aspects; Building failures; Wrecking
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Community-Based Research | Sociology
Language
English
Repository Citation
Tracy, R.
(2012).
Art and Cultural Participation in Nevada. In Dmitri N. Shalin,
The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State
1-11.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/social_health_nevada_reports/50