Arresting Images

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ART/SOCIOLOGY/POLITICS
New York Times Notable Book of the Year (1992) Winner of the Gustavus Myers Award for the Study of Human Rights
" Dubin has impressively documented a decade's developments, until now chronicled mostly in bits and pieces. His facts are well-researched and marshaled. His account, for instance, of the feckless John Frohnmayer, the embattled former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, trapped in the pressure cooker that the job has become, is masterly. And as a map of the minefields that beset artists who would venture beyond the boundaries of conventional taste, this book is important." —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"Dubin recaps the furor raised by such well-publicized works as David K. Nelson's inflammatory portrait of late Chicago mayor Harold Washington in women's undenwear, Robert Mapplethorpe's homoerotic photographs, and Andres Serrano's blasphemous Piss Christ Accessible and paced with page-turning immediacy—an excellent overview of what... Tovább

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ART/SOCIOLOGY/POLITICS
New York Times Notable Book of the Year (1992) Winner of the Gustavus Myers Award for the Study of Human Rights
" Dubin has impressively documented a decade's developments, until now chronicled mostly in bits and pieces. His facts are well-researched and marshaled. His account, for instance, of the feckless John Frohnmayer, the embattled former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, trapped in the pressure cooker that the job has become, is masterly. And as a map of the minefields that beset artists who would venture beyond the boundaries of conventional taste, this book is important." —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"Dubin recaps the furor raised by such well-publicized works as David K. Nelson's inflammatory portrait of late Chicago mayor Harold Washington in women's undenwear, Robert Mapplethorpe's homoerotic photographs, and Andres Serrano's blasphemous Piss Christ Accessible and paced with page-turning immediacy—an excellent overview of what happens when the avant-garde art world meets the conservative right." —KIRKUS REVIEWS
''Arresting Images places recent art controversies in their social setting. In Dubin's work, we see artists speaking out or questioning their world through their images, while politicians and other groups seek to protect their version of what is respectable."
—FREE EXPRESSION
" Arresting Images provides a fresh look at the social, political and psychological forces influencing the American art world today."
—LIBRARY JOURNAL
Drawing upon extensive interviews, a broad sampling of media accounts, legal documents and his own observations of important events, Steven Dubin surveys the censorship issues surrounding visual art, photography and film, as well as artistic upstarts such as video and performance art. He examines both the nature of art work which disarms its viewers and the social reaction to it. Combining the eye of an aesthete and the rigor of a social scientist, Dubin offers provocative insights into contemporary society and politics.
Steven C. Dubin is Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Purchase.
Printed in the U.S.A. Cover design: Patricia Lie
Cover art: "Heaven and Hell," 1984, Andres Serrano
Courtesy of Stux Gallery, New York, New York
ISBN 0-415-90893-0
II 90000 > Vissza