TY - BOOK AU - Becker,Carol TI - The Subversive imagination: artist, society, and social responsibility SN - 0415905915 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; Introduction: Presenting the Problem / Carol Becker -- Pt. 1. Personal Responsibility and Political Contingencies. 1. The Prehistory of Art: Cultural Practices and Athenian Democracy / Page duBois. 2. A Plea for Irresponsibility / Ewa Kuryluk. 3. Dead Doll Prophecy / Kathy Acker. 4. The Heuristic Power of Art / Elizam Escobar. 5. Place, Position, Power, Politics / Martha Rosler. 6. The Velvet Revolution and Iron Necessity / Eva Hauser. 7. El Diario de Miranda/Miranda's Diary / Coco Fusco -- Pt. 2. Decolonizing the Imagination. 8. Herbert Marcuse and the Subversive Potential of Art / Carol Becker. 9. East and West - The Twain Do Meet: A Tale of More than Two Worlds / Felipe Ehrenberg. 10. Defining South African Literature for a New Nation / Njabulo S. Ndebele. 11. The Politics of Black Masculinity and the Ghetto in Black Film / Michael Eric Dyson. 12. Adjusting to the World According to Salman Rushdie / Ahmad Sadri -- Pt. 3. Theorizing the Future; 13. Benetton's "World Without Borders": Buying Social Change / Henry A. Giroux. 14. The Free Art Agreement/El Tratado de Libre Cultura / Guillermo Gomez-Pena. 15. Dissed and Disconnected: Notes on Present Ills and Future Dreams / B. Ruby Rich ER -