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    <![CDATA[The Subversive Imagination: The Artist, Society and Social Responsiblity]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>In <em>The Subversive Imagination</em>, professional writers, artists and cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist's responsibility to society. The contributors look beyond censorship and free speech issues and instead emphasize the subject of freedom. More specifically, the contributors question the ethical, mutual responsibilities between artists and the societies in which they live.<br/><br/> The original essays address an eclectic range of subjects: censorship, multiculturalism, the transition from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe, postmodernism, Salman Rushdie, and young black filmmakers' responsibility to the black community.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety (Suny Series, Interruptions : Border Testimony)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Surpassing the Spectacle]]>
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    <![CDATA[Leading social critic Carol Becker offers a timely analysis of the nature of art and its role in politics and society. Completed just before the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center catastrophe, this book is remarkably prescient of the new concerns that have now become foremost in our thoughts since the attack. Becker raises the question of the place of art and the function of public intellectuals in a society desperately in need of creativity and leadership. Visit our website for sample chapters!]]>
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    <![CDATA[Social Responsibility and the Place of the Artist in Society]]>
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    <![CDATA[Reflections on the art wars by feminist critic Carol Becker,  Dean at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where student art  twice set off national controversy over censorship. Becker discusses the  reluctance of the art community to confront the content of censored work  and the emotions the work generates, and tries to explain why the art  world hasn't  developed a stronger methodology and discourse for  addressing issues of social responsibility and accountability.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxiety of Change]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1990</published>
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    <![CDATA[Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production]]>
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    <![CDATA[Thinking in Place is a meditation on place as a physical as well as a conceptual construct that encompasses both history and memory. The book begins with Defining Place, a piece about the memory of childhood as located in two unique locations Crown Heights, in Brooklyn, New York, and Hastings, a coal-mining town in Western Pennsylvania. These were the two locations of Becker's childhood and of her multiple dual-identities as Russian Jewish/Polish Catholic, urban/rural and working class/peasant. This essay sets up the underlying premise of the book, which is that writing is the ultimate place of safety and sanity in the midst of the complexity of identity. The second essay is about growing up near the Brooklyn Museum in New York, a place that established for Becker the value of public institutions and thus made possible a long career of working in an art school connected to a great historical museum. This is one of three pieces that takes its location from the pedagogical site of educating artists. The last four essays in the book are specific to site and history. One is located at the site of the My Lai massacre. Another is focused on the production of an archive by indigenous women who survived apartheid South Africa. Another essay begins at Birla House, the place where Gandhi was shot, and focuses on the public image of Gandhi's Body, exploring the idea that the more naked he becomes in appearance, the more powerful he becomes in the world. The final essay is a meditation on the high waters of Venice, a city that is losing ground, literally, each year, but that houses some of the greatest paintings ever painted a site of dreams, memories, obsessions about the past, filled with premonitions of the future. There are ten essays, and each is unique in style and approach. Each is also passionate in its attempt to translate the experiential into the analytic, and to use each experience to contemplate the evolution of the thought as a potential agent for social change. Read about Carol's thoughts on life, art, and her new book in this interview in The Brooklyn Rail here: Brooklyn Rail Interview]]>
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    <![CDATA[Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety (Suny Series, Interruptions -- Border Testimony(Ies) and Critical Discourse/S)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Letter to the World]]>
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    <![CDATA[Carol BeckerÂ's poems address the themes of childhood, family, love, illness, and independence.  With finely detailed images and precise, powerful language, she limns a world both informed by the past and liberated by it.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Das unsichtbare Drama. Frauen: Erfolgreicher denn je und doch nicht glücklich. Für mehr Mut zum selbstbestimmten Leben]]>
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    <![CDATA[Different Voices: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Framework for Change in the American Art Museum]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[James Clifford]]></name>
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