The Art of Social Critique

Informationen zum Autor Shawn Chandler Bingham directs the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences program at the University of South Florida. His recently authored books include Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination (Rowman & Littlefield 2008) and a forthcoming book on disability and comedy. Klappentext By treading the common ground between the arts, humanities and social sciences, The Art of Social Critiqueraises important questions about the role of art in society, and posits art as a qualitative form of social inquiry. The authors cover a range of artists whose methods of "seeing" social life - observing, analyzing and portraying society - draw on the sociological, psychological, historical, and political imagination. Zusammenfassung Includes bibliographical references and index.

Klappentext
By treading the common ground between the arts, humanities and social sciences, The Art of Social Critiqueraises important questions about the role of art in society, and posits art as a qualitative form of social inquiry. The authors cover a range of artists whose methods of "seeing" social life - observing, analyzing and portraying society - draw on the sociological, psychological, historical, and political imagination.

Zusammenfassung
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inhalt
Introduction Seeing Beyond the Verge of Sight: Imagination(s) and Social Inquiry Shawn Chandler Bingham Part I. Novel Visions Chapter 1: Sociology on the Road: The Sociological Imagination of Jack Kerouac Valerie Chepp and Paul Dean Chapter 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 Lamons Part II. Poetic Inquiry Chapter 4: Carolyn Forche and the Fraught Nature of Poetic Witness Andrea Scarpino Chapter 5: American Poetry: Process as Vision Gregg Mosson Part III. Building Social Structures Chapter 6: Frank Lloyd Wright: Building an American Architecture from Within Outward Gail Satler Chapter 7: The Architect as "Molder of the Sensibilities of the General Public": Bruno Taut and his Architekturprogramm Markus Breitschmid Part IV. Painting Mirrors Chapter 8: Tellin' It Like It Is: Social Realism and the Art of Aaron Douglas Damon Powell Chapter 9: Political Cartoons: Artful Commentary Elaine Miller Chapter 10: Mourning America's War Harms: Alan Magee's Trauerbeit Robert Stanton Image Gallery Part V. Performing Life Chapter 11: Other People's Dancers: Paul Taylor's Choreography by Messenger Paul Rutz Chapter 12: Reconceptualization through Theater: Reflections on Mirror Theatre's "(Re)Productions Joe Norris Chapter 13: Standing Up Racism: Richard Pryor and the Development of a Contentious Racial Politics James Michael Thomas Part VI. Sounding Off Chapter 14: Learning from Lennon: Using Songs and Stardom to Promote Peace and Justice James 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. Gill Part VII. Reel Life Chapter 17: Staging Truth: Errol Morris's Pursuit of the Objective in the Subjective Jared Del Rosso

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