Author: Haynes, Deborah J.
Title: The Vocation of the Artist
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1997). orig. cloth. 26x18cm, xxii, 327 pp, Some light cover soil.. Textual photo illustrations.. Minor rubbing. A label to rear cover. VG. ¶ Contents: Preliminary Issues; Introduction; Methodology; Goals; A Proposition; Vocation; A History of 'Vocation'; Labor, Work, and Action; The Efficacy of Art; Toward a Theory of Representation; Art and Social Change; Roles of the Artist; Premodern Theocentric Mimetic Craftsperson; Traditional Artist/Artisan; The Russian Icon Writer; The Tibetan Thangka Painter; Reaccenting Premodern Traditions; Modern Anthropocentric Original Inventor; From the Premodern to the Modern; Artist as Hero; Artist as Semidivine Creator and Mystic Visionary; Avant-Garde Prophet; The Avant- Garde; Artist as Prophet; The Death of the Avant-Garde and the Birth of the Postmodern; Postmodern Parodic Ex-centric Bricoleur; Characterizing the Present; Artist as Bricoleur; Artists and Their Media; The Reclamation of the Future; Prophetic Criticism; Defining Prophecy; Prophecy in Historical Perspective; The Process of Prophetic Criticism; Visionary Imagination; Models of the Imagination; Ocularcentrism; Recuperation of the Visionary Imagination; Creativity, Utopia, and Hope; Creativity; Utopia; Hope; Artist as Public Intellectual; A Final Image.

Keywords: Art Criticism, Artists, Sociology, Vocation, Social History, , , ,