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The artist descending : art, atrocity, & justice
- Title
- The artist descending : art, atrocity, & justice [videorecording] / [video producer] The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ; [video prod. company, Character Generators, Inc.]
- Publication
- New York, 1997.
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- Description
- 2 videocassettes (98 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 3/4 in. (U-matic)
- Summary
- Opens with introductory remarks by series producer Todd Lincoln.
- Using several essays by Lawrence Weschler as a point of departure, the panelists explore the role of the artist in a despotic, fascistic, and/or genocidal state. Factors influencing the artist's response to such regimes are examined, whether the response is one of collusion, opposition, or an attempt to work independently of the regime's dominance. Debate ensues over perceived reactionary and misogynistic impulses within literary and artistic avant-garde movements under fascism and other governmental systems. It is asserted that, in addition to art and literature, language itself can become politicized under extremist regimes. Examples are drawn from recent years in Bosnia, and from Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. A question and answer session with the audience concludes the discussion.
- Series Statement
- Speaking Out: The Performing Arts Forum 1997
- Subjects
- Genocide in literature
- Munk, Erika
- Panel discussions
- Yugoslavia > Intellectual life > 1992-
- Misogyny
- Soviet Union > Intellectual life
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
- Germany > History > 1933-1945
- Arts and morals
- Yugoslavia > History > 1992-
- Serbia > History > 1992-
- Propaganda
- Arts and revolutions
- Yugoslavia > Languages > Political aspects
- Mee, Charles L
- Weschler, Lawrence
- Despotism in literature
- Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-
- Genre/Form
- Panel discussions.
- Note
- Fifth program in a series of five.
- Copy of program available.
- Some material not recorded; cassette no.2 begins after an indeterminate lapse of time.
- Playwright Sarah Kane, listed as a panelist in the program, did not participate due to illness.
- Performer (note)
- Panelists: Lawrence Weschler, Robert Jay Lifton, Charles L. Mee, with Erika Munk, moderator.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in its Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York, N.Y., May 19, 1997.
- Call Number
- NCOW 209
- OCLC
- NYPG99-F990
- Title
- The artist descending : art, atrocity, & justice [videorecording] / [video producer] The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ; [video prod. company, Character Generators, Inc.]
- Imprint
- New York, 1997.
- Series
- Speaking Out: The Performing Arts Forum 1997
- Performer
- Panelists: Lawrence Weschler, Robert Jay Lifton, Charles L. Mee, with Erika Munk, moderator.
- Event
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in its Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York, N.Y., May 19, 1997.
- Added Author
- London, Todd, producer.London, Todd, speaker.Weschler, Lawrence, panelist.Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- panelist.Mee, Charles L., panelist.Munk, Erika, moderator.Character Generators/Video.New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- Research Call Number
- NCOW 209