Arresting Images

Dubin, Steven C.

ISBN 10: 0415908930 / ISBN 13: 9780415908931

Published by Routledge, 1994

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Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Arresting Images
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415908930
• ISBN 13: 9780415908931
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Although contemporary art may sometimes shock us, more alarming are recent attempts to regulate its display. Drawing upon extensive interviews, a broad sampling of media accounts, legal documents and his own observations of important events, sociologist Steven Dubin surveys the recent trend in censorship of the visual arts, photography and film, as well as artistic upstarts such as video and performance art. He examines the dual meaning of arresting images--both the nature of art work which disarms its viewers and the social reaction to it. Arresting Images examines the battles which erupt when artists address such controversial issues as racial polarization, AIDS, gay-bashing and sexual inequality in their work.

About the Author

Steven C. Dubin is Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Purchase, where he directs the Social Sciences and the Arts program. He is the author of Bureaucratizing the Muse: Public Funds and theCultural Worker.