Voices of Fire : Art, Rage, Power, and the StateTools Barber, Bruce and Guilbault, Serge and O'Brian, John and De Duve, Thierry and Dubreuil-Blondin, Nicole and Murray, Robert and Smith, Brydon. Voices of Fire : Art, Rage, Power, and the State. Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Abstract (English)"Visual art, especially abstract art, functions a little like a time bomb. It explodes under the pressure of changing social circumstances, scattering the old meanings that once defined it and reassembling new ones not imagined at the moment of production. These metaphoric detonations and reconstitutions of art, though unpredictable in their timing, occur with a certain inevitability." -- p. [4] of cover.
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