Manifesto for the imagination

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26 February 2009Frank explores the importance and fragility of the imagination and the dangers of heavy handed interventions.

"Because of the Henson controversy, I decided I should sit down and look at the reasoning we use to defend the faculty of the artistic imagination: why is the artistic imagination treated as a thing of angry suspicion and distaste by some people and with awe by others; from where does the imagination claim its authority to challenge conventions and the law?"

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