Provoking democracy : why we need the arts / Caroline Levine.
Provoking democracy : why we need the arts / Caroline Levine.
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Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N700.103/31
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English
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xiii, 252 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Democracy meets the avant-garde -- The people v. the arts -- Propaganda for democracy: the avant-garde goes to war -- Obscenity and the democratization of culture -- Originality on trial -- Conclusion: artists, academic writing, and the classroom.
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Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2007.
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"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 commi...
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Provoking democracy : why we need the arts / Caroline Levine.
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Blackwell manifestos.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N700.103/31
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74VKzBvomZlM
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9781405159272 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405159265 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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700.103
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991023600059702626
