Product Description: Losing Helen is a moving and inspiring essay that tracks an adult daughter through the many complex phases of grief as she anticipates the inevitable loss of her elderly mother. Finding strength and guidance in the spiritual insights of writers, artists, Western religion, and Eastern philosophies, the narrator undergoes a profound transformation while striving to design an end-of-life experience that is meaningful and sacred not only for her mother but also for herself...read more

Product Description: Psychologists report that anxiety has replaced depression as the number one challenge to a woman’s sense of well-being and good mental health. Through extensive personal interviews with individuals, groups, and therapists, author Carol Becker examines the most prevalent forms of anxiety among women—and the often subtle and surprising physical and emotional ways in which it negatively manifests itself...read more

Product Description: Carol Becker, preeminent arts educator and contributor to leading art magazines, offers a beautifully poignant meditation on the role of place in artistic creativity. She focuses on place as a historical, physical entity and a conceptual site where ideas come into meaning...read more

Product Description: Carol Becker's poems address the themes of childhood, family, love, illness, and independence. With finely detailed images and precise, powerful language, she limns a world both informed by the past and liberated by it.

Product Description: In her newest book, leading social critic Carol Becker offers a timely analysis of the nature of art and its role in politics and society. Completed just before the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center catastrophe, Surpassing the Spectacle is now especially relevant in its analysis of the spectacle society that was omnipresent before that fatal day...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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 difficulties facing women in the workplace, why male bonding exists, why women experience anxiety in relationship to creative endeavors, and why artists are misunderstood within American society. She positions art and artists, as well as institutional dynamics within a philosophical framework. "Becker's analysis ranges across a broad spectrum of interests and concerns in the field of art. Larger issues, such as the role of art in society, are analyzed with the same focus and attention to the specific as are essays on individual artists and/or works of art. This book addresses perhaps the single most important area of concern in the arts at the present time. It is a really brilliant book, tremendously helpful and stimulating. " -- Marcia Tucker, Director, The New Museum of Contemporary Art"The richness of Becker's experience and her journey as a thinker and educator provide inspiration to those wanting a better world and caution as to how to get there. Becker's history of study, position in the art and academic structures, and seasoning as a writer give her a unique voice that is vital and informative." -- Arlene Raven, author of Art in the Public Interest"What is so remarkable about Carol Becker's book is that it imaginatively rewrites the role of the artist as a public intellectual. For Becker, understanding the complexity of the art process and its relationship with multiple publics is a pedagogical process that deepens our understanding of how industries are formed, artwork produced, and responsibilities engaged so as to enable the possibilities of democratic public life." -- from the Foreword by series editor, Henry A. Giroux (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist's responsibility to society. The contributors to this collection look beyond censorship and free speech issues to emphasize the subject of freedom...read more

Basing her advice on intimate talks with women and a wide range of research sources from psychology and literature, the author helps post-lib women adjust to their new freedom and enjoy their new opportunities