This project is supported by Moreland City Council, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Victoria, Australia.

Includes bibliographical references.

Machine derived contents note: INTRODUCTION / William Kelly II -- Part 1 DILEMMAS-- Herbert Read / Art and Society 37 -- Douglas Kellner / Expressionism, Industrial Capitalism, and the Crisis of Subjectivity 51 -- Suzi Gablik / The Reenchantment of Art 71 -- Part 2 IDENTITY -- -- Lucy R. Lippard / Naming 81 -- Nigel Spivey / Savagery Begins at Home 99 -- Part 3 ALTERNATIVES -- William Kelly / Art's Real Concern is Humanity: Notes from the End of the World II 111 -- Alex Carrascosa / Source, Course and Horizon of Humanist Art: 121 -- From Denunciation to Announcement -- Barry Schwartz / The Humanist Alternative in Modern Art 143 -- Part 4 COURAGE -- Thomas Mann, Spain 167 -- Rob Watts / The Work of Art in an Age of Mass Destruction 173 -- Paul Tillich / A Prefatory Note (From New Images of Man) 183 -- Part 5 ACTION -- Ginter Grass / 'To Be Continued ' 189 -- Robert Godfrey / Civilization, Education, and the Arts: A Personal Manifesto 205 -- Rosalind I. J. Hackett / 'Oppositional Aesthetics': 213 -- Art and Religion in the Service of Human Rights -- Part 6 COMMUNICATION -- Ken Baynes / Style and Communication 221 -- Dominic Thorburn / Mobile Messenger Meets Mediating Matrix - Print Communication 227 -- Along the Global Conduit -- Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin / Transferring the Charge 233 -- Doreen Mellor / Diverse Cultures; Common Threads 237 -- Part 7 HOPE -- Andries Botha / Values and Symbols -A Reflection 245 -- Lucy R. Lippard / A Crack in the System 247 -- Jenny Zimmer / An Epic Quest 249 -- Ricardo Levins Morales / The Importance of Being Artist 253 -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS 257 -- ARTISTS' STATEMENTS AND 259 -- BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES.