Photography, Autonomy, Economy
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Köp båda 2 för 688 kr"A shining example of how to think about art and politics without reducing either term to the other. . . . It is a virtue of Michaels's book that it does not seek merely to be agreed with; rather, it channels the force of its examples to challenge major assumptions about what it means to engage with art in a political way, even and especially when it is beautiful."-- "Los Angeles Review of Books" "Michaels offers deft interventions in debates around concepts--such as autonomy, indexicality, intention and absorption--which have preoccupied art and . . . literary theorists over recent decades."-- "Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory" "Remarkable. . . . What is immediately apparent is Benn Michaels's ability to explicate the inextricable relation between neoliberal economic forms and the formal interventions of contemporary photography while avoiding the numbing obfuscation of the professional academic, the rhetorical flourishes of the art critic and the political diatribes of the militant." -- "Prefix Photo" "Michaels adroitly advocates for an acknowledgement of the economic and political structures that have influenced the development of select photographs commenting on an increasingly stratified society. . . . Recommended." -- "Choice" "The Beauty of a Social Problem is a great book; it is challenging, it is timely in its sense of political urgency, and it is intellectually stimulating in that it forces readers time and again to question the hegemony of academic common sense."-- "Amerikastudien"
Walter Benn Michaels is professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Shape of the Signifier and The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality.