Thursday 17 September 2009

the art of escape

In his new book Dancing in the Dark, a cultural history of America during the Depression, Morris Dickstein writes:

The arts bound people together in a collaborative effort to interpret and alleviate their plight.

But he notes:

A culture’s forms of escape, if they can be called escape, are as significant and revealing as its social criticism.

(Reviewed here.)

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