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Daniel Herwitz - The Political Power of Visual Art, Inbunden

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The Political Power of Visual Art

Liberty, Solidarity, and Rights

Av Daniel Herwitz

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Beskrivning
Visual art has a ubiquitous political cast today. But which politics? Daniel Herwitz seeks clarity on the various things meant by politics, and how we can evaluate their presumptions or aspirations in contemporary art. Drawing on the work of William Kentridge, drenched in violence, race, and power, and the artworld immolations of Banksy, Herwitz’s examples range from the NEA 4 and the question of offense-as-dissent, to the community driven work of George Gittoes, the identity politics of contemporary American art and (for contrast with the power of visual media) literature written in dialogue with truth commissions. He is interested in understanding art practices today in the light of two opposing inheritances: the avant-gardes and their politicization of the experimental art object, and 18th-century aesthetics, preaching the autonomy of the art object, which he interprets as the cultural compliment to modern liberalism. His historically-informed approach reveals how crucial this pair of legacies is to reading the tensions in voice and character of art today. Driven by questions about the capacity of the visual medium to speak politically or acquire political agency, this book is for anyone working in aesthetics or the art world concerned with the fate of cultural politics in a world spinning out of control, yet within reach of emancipation.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-04-08
  • Mått: 148 x 218 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 400 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 216
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781350182387
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Daniel Herwitz is Fredrick Huetwell Professor of Philosophy, History of Art and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, USA where for a decade he directed the Institute for the Humanities. His previously published books include Aesthetics, Arts and Politics in a Global World (2017), the award winning Star as Icon (2008), and M.F. Husain (1988).

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This is a book of essays, only seemingly miscellaneous. It seeks and effectively finds a deep integration of diverse themes and movements in both art and politics, and it does so with sensibility and analytical power and an eloquence of style. How does the visual relate to dissent against the state? Can art and literature straddle both autonomy and solidarity? With what attitudes to violence is it possible to visually represent a whole empire based on the political economy of mining and a nation that comes out from under its shadow? By what gradual alchemies do philosophical traditions of taste in the eighteenth century give way to the thrusting innovations of the avant-garde some two centuries later? With what creative pride does the art and mind of the Southern periphery refuse the offer to merely play 'catch up' with the trends and frameworks of the metropolitan North? These are some of the questions Daniel Herwitz illuminatingly traverses with his wide knowledge, his lively intelligence, and his impressive cosmopolitan reach. A work of sustaining interest and instructive insight.

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