In Steven D. Lavine — Failure is What It's All About, German author Jörn Jacob Rohwer explores the story of CalArts and the historical and biographical origins of Lavine's approach to life, with special attention to the way in which personal doubts and weaknesses became the basis of a style of leadership based on listening, learning, and consensus building. Rohwer uncovers the deep grounding of Lavine's commitment to diversity and equal opportunity in his family's immigrant past and its legacy of Eastern European Jewry.
In these personal conversations, Lavine tells his life story for the first time, talking about cultural politics, philanthropy, the avant-garde, and Los Angeles at the center of his life. Spurred on by self-doubts and a desire to learn from failure, he proves to be a sensitive thinker, visionary and transatlantic mediator between the worlds of art, politics and education.
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About the Author
Award-winning author Jörn Jacob Rohwer is well-known for elegantly merging elements of literature and journalism in his writings. Widely published since 1995, his lengthy profile conversations with luminaries from the arts, science, and society are best represented by his book of nearly 900 pages, "Die Seismografie des Fragens" (Salis, Zurich - currently in English translation).
Rohwer was born in 1965 in Rendsburg, Germany, and graduated with distinction from UCL. London University. He received numerous international fellowships and foundation grants, lectured and read in Germany, Switzerland, and the USA. His subsequent book is intended to comprise a collection of essays. Rohwer lives and works in Berlin.
About Dr. Steven D. Lavine
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Dr. Steven Lavine has been an artistic, educational, and community leader in Los Angeles and nationally for four decades. From 1988 to 2017, he served as President of the California Institute of the Arts, a period of sustained growth in programs, community engagement, enrollment, reputation, and financial stability for the progressive multi-disciplinary arts college. Shortly after stepping down, he was recruited as Founding Director and then Chair of the Los Angeles Advisory Council for the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles, which is devoted to bringing creative thinkers from Germany and the United States together around urgent contemporary issues, particularly the future of liberal democracy. Today, Lavine divides his time between the Thomas Mann House and consulting with a broad range of progressive not-for-profit organizations. He has co-edited two influential books about museum practices: Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display and Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture.
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