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Title Provoking democracy : why we need the arts / Caroline Levine
Imprint Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007

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 Malmö stadsarkiv:Dawit Isaak-magasinet  700 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript xiii, 252 s. ill. 23 cm
Series Blackwell manifestos
Blackwell manifestos
Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-237) and index
Content 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
Note "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."--Jacket
Subject Konst och samhälle
Konst och politik
Democracy and the arts
Arts and society
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Social aspects
Art and society
Dawit Isaak-biblioteket
Classmark 700.1/03
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