TY - BOOK AU - Becker,Carol TI - The subversive imagination: artists, society, and social responsibility SN - 0415905923 AV - NX180.A77 S83 1994 U1 - 700.103 PY - 1994/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Artists and community KW - Artists KW - Psychology N1 - 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 ER -