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Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety

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Addresses the questions: What might be the role of the artist in the 21st century? How essential is art to the psychic and political well-being of American society?

This collection of essays by cultural critic Carol Becker plumbs particular areas of controversy to understand what information these "zones of contention" might yield about the multifarious culture wars taking place within American society today.

In the process she addresses the place of art and artists in society, the difficulti...