The political powers of visual art : liberty, solidarity, and rights

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    • Herwitz, Daniel Alan

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The political powers of visual art : liberty, solidarity, and rights

Daniel Herwitz

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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Summary: "Visual art has a ubiquitous political cast today. But which politics? Daniel Herwitz seeks clarity on what is meant by politics, and how we can evaluate its presumption or aspiration in contemporary art. Drawing on the work of William Kentridge, drenched in war, violence and race and the artworld immolations of Bansky, Herwitz's examples range from the NEA 4 and the question of offense-as-dissent, to M.F. Husain and the Hindu nationalist Indian right wing. 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 apolitical 18th-century aesthetics. 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 , Hertwitz's book is for anyone working in aesthetics or the art world concerned with the fa

Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • The politics of visibility : Lurie and Ranciere
  • Art and the mining of diamonds : Kentridge, Modisakeng and what is meant by politics
  • The politics of the witness : Georges Gittoes
  • Virulent nationalism and the politics of offense : the NEA
  • Literature and the politics of the Truth Commission : Dorfman and Coetzee
  • Identity politics in a consumerist world
  • Art market politics : Manet to Banksy
  • Autonomy as negotiation : Mozart reconsidered
  • Film, the individual and the collective

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内容説明

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.

目次

1. Introduction 2. Kentridge, Modisakeng and the Politics of Extraction 3. David Lurie and the Politics of Visibility 4. Vha-Venda, Isi-Tsonga, Democracy and Political Economy 5. Gittoes, Ai Weiwei and the Politics of the Witness 6. Virulent Nationalism and the Politics of Offense 7. Disgrace, Punishment, Reconciliation: Literature and the Truth Commission 8. The Personal is Political: Autonomy as Negotiation 9. Benjamin and the Politics of the Collective 10. Identity Politics in the Consumerist World 11. Artworld Politics: Manet to Bansky Bibliography Index

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