Social Activist Art: towards a new paradigm?

"As our world, our culture, continues to race headlong toward some precipitous collapse (really, so many people see it coming but feel so helpless to alter course), doesn't art have a crucial role to play in this search for the kind of reve[lation] that can break the psycho-spiritual impasse that has settled over the western world?"

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