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Create Dangerously: The Power and Responsibility of the Artist

by Albert Camus

An artist’s place in public life

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An artist’s place in public life

Based on a 1957 speech, this concise essay considers what it means for artists to make and publish work amid the pressures of their time. Camus connects artistic freedom with responsibility to civil society, while the source also situates his appeal in the experience of an immigrant background. The book offers a focused point of entry into questions about the artist’s role beyond the act of creation itself.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Writers and artists interested in the responsibilities that accompany creative work
  • Readers exploring Camus’s essays and ideas about art’s place in society

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Artistic freedomCreative responsibilityArt and civil societyImmigrant experience

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Book overview

A call to arms for artists, in particular those who came from an immigrant background, like he did. - "To create today means to create dangerously. Every publication is a deliberate act, and that act makes us vulnerable to the passions of a century that forgives nothing."

In 1957, Nobel Prize-winning philosopher Albert Camus gave a speech entitled "Create Dangerously." Camus understood the necessity of those making art as a part of civil society. A bold cry for artistic freedom and responsibility, his words today remain as timely as ever. In this new translation, Camus's message, available as a stand-alone little book for the first time, will resonate with a new generation of writers and artists.
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