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jebreject
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« on: Jan 13, 2006, 10:13:42 AM »
... the role of the entertainer in society.

My friend Erin is interested in researching this topic, and asked me if I could help her find some books about the social repsonsibility of artists.  So I was wondering if any of you could help us out.  Thanks!
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Michael
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« Reply #1 on: Jan 13, 2006, 12:20:21 PM »
The only thing that is coming immediately to mind is Susan Sontag's On Photography and Regarding the Pain of Others, both of which deal to some extent with the social responsibility of photographers. I disagree with a lot of what Sontag has to say in these books (especially her treatment of Riis and Arbus in On Photography), but... yeah.
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« Reply #2 on: Jan 13, 2006, 12:50:30 PM »
Its not a book, but Kafka wrote a short story called the Hunger Artist that deals with some interesting issues on the role or perception of the Artist in society
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jebreject
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« Reply #3 on: Jan 13, 2006, 12:53:57 PM »
thanks!

anyone else have any suggestions?
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jebreject
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« Reply #4 on: Jan 13, 2006, 12:54:13 PM »
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Its not a book, but Kafka wrote a short story called the Hunger Artist that deals with some interesting issues on the role or perception of the Artist in society


good call!
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DCDave
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« Reply #5 on: Jan 13, 2006, 02:37:37 PM »
The introduction to Let us Now Praise Famous Men
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theartlessmonster
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« Reply #6 on: Jan 13, 2006, 02:42:39 PM »
Artists in Times of War, Howard Zinn

http://www.sevenstories.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=58322100046150
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« Reply #7 on: Jan 13, 2006, 03:08:48 PM »
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Artists in Times of War, Howard Zinn

http://www.sevenstories.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=58322100046150


anything by luis lberto urrea...or howard zinn
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swilkes
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« Reply #8 on: Jan 13, 2006, 03:23:16 PM »
Get Oscar Wilde's critical essays. I think UChicago Press published a collection. Michael mentioned Sontag--might as well go for Notes on Camp too.
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« Reply #9 on: Jan 13, 2006, 04:41:57 PM »
y'all are great!

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« Reply #10 on: Jan 13, 2006, 05:09:31 PM »
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Get Oscar Wilde's critical essays. I think UChicago Press published a collection. Michael mentioned Sontag--might as well go for Notes on Camp too.


Yeah, "Soul of Man Under Socialism" would probably be really interesting, especially to compare the proto-dirty-hippie with the Mark-V-Dirty-Hippies like Zinn and Sontag.
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Good Intentions
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« Reply #11 on: Jan 13, 2006, 10:04:50 PM »
The theoretical texts of Antonin Artaud.
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Good Intentions
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« Reply #12 on: Jan 13, 2006, 10:06:57 PM »
I don't see how "Soul of Man..." would be relevant here - but I'm also extremely unconvinced by the Fabians and by their liberalism as exemplified by that essay.
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« Reply #13 on: Jan 14, 2006, 03:34:45 AM »
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The theoretical texts of Antonin Artaud.


THOSE INDIANS WANK ON HIS BONES





sorry, i can never resist the temptation to do that every time i see artaud's name.
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Good Intentions
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« Reply #14 on: Jan 14, 2006, 06:08:13 AM »
That song kicks so much ass - for 30 seconds. After the first line and the first riff, it goes badly downhill.

My favourite Artaud soundbites:

"All writing is so much pigshit"

"I am a rat's ass suspended from the sky" - his one-sentence description of the Oedipus complex.
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hannah
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« Reply #15 on: Jan 14, 2006, 09:20:11 AM »
Silence by John Cage.
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« Reply #16 on: Jan 14, 2006, 11:18:27 AM »
Quote from: "Good Intentions"
That song kicks so much ass - for 30 seconds. After the first line and the first riff, it goes badly downhill.


no way dude. that song rules from start to finish.
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dieblucasdie
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« Reply #17 on: Jan 14, 2006, 11:34:06 AM »
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I don't see how "Soul of Man..." would be relevant here - but I'm also extremely unconvinced by the Fabians and by their liberalism as exemplified by that essay.


The other stuff mentioned being "artists' social responsibility" and "Soul of Man..." being "society's artistic responsibility" though maybe I'm thinking too much about it; it's been a while since I read it.
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« Reply #18 on: Jan 14, 2006, 12:58:12 PM »
miles by miles davis.
his cokefreak stories towards the end are priceless.
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« Reply #19 on: Jan 14, 2006, 01:43:54 PM »
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miles by miles davis.
his cokefreak stories towards the end are priceless.


Ooooo good call.
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« Reply #20 on: Jan 15, 2006, 01:04:08 PM »
honorary motherfucker
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