The Shock of Art: The Social Uses of Art After Culture

FAIN: FB-11427-72

President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
Philip J. Fisher (Project Director: September 1972 to present)

A book length sudy focusing on the antagonism and mutual suspicion between social experience and the imaginative life, centering on the classical period of modern literature between the two world wars. The book will provocatively raise the question of the paradoxes for the teacher who examines from within Culture Art that with gusto mocks and repudiates Culture iself.