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The Subversive imagination : artists, society, and social responsibility

Title
  1. The Subversive imagination : artists, society, and social responsibility / edited by Carol Becker.
Published by
  1. New York : Routledge, 1994.

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Additional authors
  1. Becker, Carol.
Description
  1. xx, 258 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. Looks at the issue of the artist's responsibility to society, and questions the ethical, mutual responsibilities between artists and society.
Subject
  1. Artists and community
  2. Artists > Psychology
  3. Gesellschaft
  4. Kultursoziologie
  5. Kunstsoziologie
  6. Künstler
  7. Aufsatzsammlung
  8. Kunstenaars
  9. Maatschappij
  10. Sociale aspecten
  11. Psychologische aspecten
  12. Kunstenaarschap
  13. Artistes
  14. Art et société
  15. Activités subversives
  16. Gesellschaft
  17. Aufsatzsammlung
Contents
  1. Introduction : presenting the problem / Carol Becker -- The prehistory of art : cultural practices and Athenian democracy / Page duBois -- A plea for irresponsibility / Ewa Kuryluk -- Dead doll prophecy / Kathy Acker -- The heuristic power of art / Elizam Escobar -- Place, position, power, politics / Martha Rosler -- The velvet revolution and iron necessity / Eva Hauser -- El diario de Miranda/Miranda's diary / Coco Fusco -- Herbert Marcuse and the subversive potential of art / Carol Becker -- East and West, the twain do meet : a tale of more than two worlds / Felipe Ehrenberg -- Defining South African literature for a new nation / Njabulo S. Ndebele -- The politics of Black masculinity and the ghetto in Black film / Michael Eric Dyson -- Adjusting to the world according to Salman Rushdie / Ahmad Sadri -- Bennetton's "world without borders" : buying social change / Henry A. Giroux.
  2. The Free Art Agreement/El Tratado de Libre Cultura / Guillermo Gómez-Peña -- Dissed and disconnected : notes on present ills and future dreams / B. Ruby Rich.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.