The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society, and Responsibility

Notes

Professional writers, artists and cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist’s responsibility to society. Contributors: Page duBois, Ewa Kuryluk, Kathy Acker, Elizam Escobar, Martha Rosler, Eva Hauser,Coco Fusco, Carol Becker, Felipe Ehrenberg, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Michael Eric Dyson, Salman Rushdie / Ahmad Sadri, Henry A. Giroux, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and B. Ruby Rich

Artist / Author	Various
Editor	Carol Becker
Publisher	Routledge
ISBN	0-415-90592-3
Reference	P1904
Date	1994
Type	Publication

Keywords

black black community capitalism censorship communism Eastern Europe ethical free speech freedom multiculturalism postmodernism responsibility Salman Rushdie young young black filmmakers

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