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The Art of Social Critique: Painting Mirrors of Social Life
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ISBN-13: | 9780739149232 |
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Publisher: | Lexington Books |
Publication date: | 02/02/2012 |
Pages: | 594 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.90(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
IntroductionSeeing Beyond the Verge of Sight: Imagination(s) and Social InquiryShawn Chandler BinghamPart I. Novel VisionsChapter 1: Sociology on the Road: The Sociological Imagination of Jack Kerouac Valerie Chepp and Paul DeanChapter 2: Jean Genet: A Case Study of the Artist’s Explication and Alteration of Social Practice William Koch Chapter 3: James Baldwin: The Novelist as Historian and Public Intellectual Brent LamonsPart II. Poetic InquiryChapter 4: Carolyn Forché and the Fraught Nature of Poetic Witness Andrea ScarpinoChapter 5: American Poetry: Process as VisionGregg Mosson Part III. Building Social StructuresChapter 6: Frank Lloyd Wright: Building an American Architecture from Within Outward Gail SatlerChapter 7: The Architect as “Molder of the Sensibilities of the General Public”: Bruno Taut and his ArchitekturprogrammMarkus BreitschmidPart IV. Painting MirrorsChapter 8: Tellin’ It Like It Is: Social Realism and the Art of Aaron DouglasDamon PowellChapter 9: Political Cartoons: Artful Commentary Elaine MillerChapter 10: Mourning America’s War Harms: Alan Magee’s Trauerbeit Robert StantonImage GalleryPart V. Performing LifeChapter 11: Other People’s Dancers: Paul Taylor’s Choreography by Messenger Paul RutzChapter 12: Reconceptualization through Theater: Reflections on Mirror Theatre’s “(Re)ProductionsJoe NorrisChapter 13: Standing Up Racism: Richard Pryor and the Development of a Contentious Racial Politics James Michael Thomas Part VI. Sounding OffChapter 14: Learning from Lennon: Using Songs and Stardom to Promote Peace and JusticeJames R. Pennell Chapter 15: “She is Risen”: Creating Feminist Identities and Challenging Patriarchy through the Music of Tori Amos Adrienne Trier-Bieniek and Patricia Leavy Chapter 16: Propagandhi and the Politics of Subcultural Resistance Philip G. Lewin and Timothy M. GillPart VII. Reel Life Chapter 17: Staging Truth: Errol Morris’s Pursuit of the Objective in the SubjectiveJared Del RossoWhat People are Saying About This
What a marvelous journey this book is. These encounters with the likes of Jack Kerouac, James Baldwin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Pryor, Tori Amos, and "The Wire", are all potent reminders that our art is the enduring and essential mirror we need to make sense and meaning in the world.The Art of Social Critique, is both inspiring and entertaining. Read and weep, read and laugh, read and be provoked.
The Art of Social Critique: Painting Mirrors of Social Lifeis a welcome addition to the literature on the arts and social change. Unusually wide-ranging in the art forms and topics it covers, and filled with useful insights, this anthology should prove of great interest to scholars and students in American studies, ethnic and gender studies, sociology, the fine arts and literary/cultural studies.
Shawn Bingham’s The Art of Social Critique: Painting Mirrors of Social Life is a tour de force of how artists of all kinds use their talents, skills, and visions to embrace, interpret, and change the world. This collection of essays proves without a doubt that artists play crucial roles in the politics of cultural values and norms, not just policy and protest. Thus, these articles go beyond the clichéd debate over whether artists should be political—their work is inevitably and inescapably political. Instead this book investigates the myriad ways in which artists are sociological in their representations of and conversations with the social world. From architecture to poetry, from stand-up comedy to rock music, Bingham’s anthology will give readers an array of tools for investigating how art and artists provide us with the most powerful interdisciplinary depictions of our life and times—something all students of the social world will want to know.