Description |
xx, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
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 -- The Free Art Agreement/El Tratado de Libre Cultura / Guillermo Gomez-Peņa -- Dissed and disconnected : notes on present ills and future dreams / B. Ruby Rich. |
Subject |
Artists and community.
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Artists -- Psychology.
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Added Author |
Becker, Carol.
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ISBN |
0415905915 |
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9780415905916 |
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0415905923 (pbk.) |
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9780415905923 (pbk.) |
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