Art on the line
Subtitle: essays by artists about the point where their art and activism intersect
By: edited by Jack Hirschman
Contributors: Hirschman, Jack, 1933-
Edition: 1st U.S. ed
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Willimantic, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Arts and revolutions -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Poetry and militancy in Latin America / Roque Dalton; title: The Mayakovsky case ; Autopsy on surrealism / César Vallejo; title: How to make verse / Vladimir Mayakovsky; title: Art is in danger! / George Grosz, John Heartfield, and Wieland Herzfelde; title: Theory and practice of a cinema with the people / Jorge Sanjinés and the Ukamau group; title: Scratching surfaces, the social practice of tendency poetry / James Scully; title: Freedom of the artist: people's artists versus people's rulers / Ngugi wa Thiong'o; title: Democratization of culture in Nicaragua / Ernesto Cardenal; title: Surviving America / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; title: Art of liberation: a vision of freedom / Elizam Escobar; title: The American popular song, the great American songbook / Amiri Baraka; title: Notes on the new female voice / Margaret Randall; title: The meaning of exile for the contemporary Latin American writer / Arturo Arias; title: A conversation with Etel Adnan / Csaba Polony; title: Poetry: Haiti, the Caribbean and the world ; Reflections on poetry and revolution / Paul Laraque; title: Three voices together: a collage / Susan Sherman, Kimiko Hahn, and Gale Jackson; title: The thriving of tyranny in darkness, taking back the airwaves / Richard Edmondson; title: Mural, mural on the wall / Miranda Bergman; title: In order to affirm / Ferruccio Brugnaro; title: The making of a working-class intellectual / Carol Tarlen; title: Poetry and the politics of difference / Luis J. Rodríguez; title: Multiculturalism in the year of Columbus and Rodney King: a Latino poet's perspective / Martín Espada; title: Culture and struggle / Jack Hirschman