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Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction: Seeing Beyond the Verge of Sight: Art as Social Inquiry | p. 1 |
Novel Visions | |
Sociology on the Road: The Sociological Imagination of Jack Kerouac | p. 23 |
Jean Genet: A Case Study of the Artist's Explication and Alteration of Social Practice | p. 45 |
Entrapment and Examination of Self and Social Image: James Baldwin's Persistent Ascent up the Mountain | p. 67 |
Poetic Inquiry | |
Carolyn Forché and the Fraught Nature of Poetic Witness | p. 87 |
American Poetry: Process as Vision and Social Change | p. 107 |
Building Social Structures | |
Frank Lloyd Wright: Building an American Architect(ure) from Within Outward | p. 133 |
The Architect as "Molder of the Sensibilities of the General Public": Bruno Taut and his Architekturprogramm | p. 155 |
Painting Mirrors | |
Tellin' It Like It Is: Social Realism and the Art of Aaron Douglas | p. 183 |
Political Cartoons: Artful Commentary | p. 205 |
Mourning America's War Harms: Alan Magee's Trauerarbeit | p. 221 |
Image Gallery | p. 231 |
Performing Life | |
Other People's Dancers: Paul Taylor's Choreography by Messenger | p. 261 |
Reconceptualization through Theater: Reflections on Mirror Theatre's "(Re)productions" | p. 287 |
Standing Up Racism: Richard Pryor and the Development of a Contentious Racial Politics | p. 315 |
Sounding Off | |
Learning from Lennon: Using Songs and Stardom to Promote Peace and Justice | p. 341 |
"She is Risen": Creating Feminist Identities and Challenging Patriarchy through the Music of Tori Amos | p. 365 |
Propagandhi and the Politics of Subcultural Resistance | p. 391 |
Reel Life | |
Staging Truth: Errol Morris's Pursuit of the Objective in the Subjective | p. 419 |
Aesthetic or Movement? Fascism, Italian Neorealist Cinema, and Social Activism through Film | p. 439 |
New Possibilities and Old Limitations of Political Art in The Wire | p. 463 |
The Interior and Exterior Elements of Art | |
Articulating a Critical Voice: Artists Who "Rattle the Cage" about the Environment | p. 491 |
Museums of Experience: The Artist as Curator of Memory and Loss | p. 511 |
Artistic Reverence | p. 531 |
Index | p. 559 |
About the Contributors | p. 577 |
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