The future of the image

Author(s)

• Rancière, Jacques
• Elliott, Gregory

Bibliographic Information

The future of the image

Jacques Rancière ; translated by Gregory Elliott

Verso, 2009

Other Title

Destin des images

Uniform Title

Destin des images

Note

Originally published: 2003

First English edition published: 2007

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-142) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In The Future of the Image, Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, filmmakers such as Godard and Bresson, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Ranciere shows that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from religious tendencies. He argues that there is a stark political choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy, or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Ranciere there is never a pure art: the aesthetic revolution must always embrace egalitarian ideals.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB00354977
• ISBN:
  • 9781844672974
• LCCN: 2009368348
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 147 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BH151
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Aesthetics, Modern