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The subversive imagination : artists, society, and social responsibility / edited by Carol Becker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 1994Description: xx, 258 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415905923
  • 9780415905923
  • 0415905915
  • 9780415905916
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.103
LOC classification:
  • NX180.A77 S83 1994
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Presenting the Problem -- Pt. 1. Personal Responsibility and Political Contingencies -- 1. The Prehistory of Art: Cultural Practices and Athenian Democracy -- 2. A Plea for Irresponsibility -- 3. Dead Doll Prophecy -- 4. The Heuristic Power of Art -- 5. Place, Position, Power, Politics -- 6. The Velvet Revolution and Iron Necessity -- 7. El Diario de Miranda/Miranda's Diary -- Pt. 2. Decolonizing the Imagination -- 8. Herbert Marcuse and the Subversive Potential of Art -- 9. East and West - The Twain Do Meet: A Tale of More than Two Worlds -- 10. Defining South African Literature for a New Nation -- 11. The Politics of Black Masculinity and the Ghetto in Black Film -- 12. Adjusting to the World According to Salman Rushdie -- Pt. 3. Theorizing the Future -- 13. Benetton's "World Without Borders": Buying Social Change -- 14. The Free Art Agreement/El Tratado de Libre Cultura -- 15. Dissed and Disconnected: Notes on Present Ills and Future Dreams -- Index -- Contributors.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Presenting the Problem -- Pt. 1. Personal Responsibility and Political Contingencies -- 1. The Prehistory of Art: Cultural Practices and Athenian Democracy -- 2. A Plea for Irresponsibility -- 3. Dead Doll Prophecy -- 4. The Heuristic Power of Art -- 5. Place, Position, Power, Politics -- 6. The Velvet Revolution and Iron Necessity -- 7. El Diario de Miranda/Miranda's Diary -- Pt. 2. Decolonizing the Imagination -- 8. Herbert Marcuse and the Subversive Potential of Art -- 9. East and West - The Twain Do Meet: A Tale of More than Two Worlds -- 10. Defining South African Literature for a New Nation -- 11. The Politics of Black Masculinity and the Ghetto in Black Film -- 12. Adjusting to the World According to Salman Rushdie -- Pt. 3. Theorizing the Future -- 13. Benetton's "World Without Borders": Buying Social Change -- 14. The Free Art Agreement/El Tratado de Libre Cultura -- 15. Dissed and Disconnected: Notes on Present Ills and Future Dreams -- Index -- Contributors.

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