Provoking democracy : why we need the arts / Caroline Levine

By:

Levine, Caroline

Series: Blackwell manifestosPublication details: Malden, USA : Blackwell, 2007Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 252 pISBN:

9781405159272

Summary: Provoking Democracy makes an exciting and compelling new argument: that democracies require art -challenging art- to ensure that they are acting as free societies. In the twentieth century, democratic societies turned to dissenting and unpopular artists such as Jackson Pollock, Bertolt Brecht, D. H. Lawrence, and 2 Live Crew to prove their commitment to freedom from majority rule. Author Caroline Levine shows how artists in the tradition of the avant-garde may once again prove to be effective catalysts for contemporary change. Moving beyond debates over obscenity, public funding, and censorship, Provoking Democracy gets at art's value and purpose in democratic societies, concluding that the freest and fairest democracies need the provocations of art, just as the most rebellious artists need the protection of the democratic state. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00011	1	Available		1900140759

Preface -- 1. Democracy meets the Avant-Garde -- 2. The people v. the arts -- 3. Propaganda for democracy: The Avant-Garde goes to war -- 4. Obscenity and the democratization of culture -- 5. Originality on trial -- Conclusion: Artists, academic writing, and the classroom -- Notes -- Index

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