The Political Space of Art
The Dardenne Brothers, Arundhati Roy, Ai Weiwei and Burial
Seiten
2016
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78348-567-3 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78348-567-3 (ISBN)
This book discusses the work of four different kinds of artists from four different countries (Belgium, China, the UK and India) to examine how they create a space for politics in their work.
This book studies the tension between arts and politics in four contemporary artists from different countries, working with different media. The film directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne film parts of their natal city to refer to specific political problems in interpersonal relations. The novelist Arundhati Roy uses her poetic language to make room for people’s desires; her fiction is utterly political and her political essays make place for the role of narratives and poetic language. Ai Weiwei uses references to Chinese history to give consistency to its ‘economic miracle’. Finally, Burial’s electronic music is firmly rooted in a living, breathing London; built to create a sound that is entirely new, and yet hauntingly familiar.
These artists create in their own way a space for politics in their works and their oeuvre but their singularity comes together as a desire to reconstruct the political space within art from its ruins. These ruins were brought by the disenchantment of 1970s: the end of art, postmodernism, and the rise of design, marketing and communication. Each artwork bears the mark of the resistance against the depoliticisation of society and the arts, at once rejecting cynicism and idealism, referring to themes and political concepts that are larger than their own domain. This book focuses on these productive tensions.
This book studies the tension between arts and politics in four contemporary artists from different countries, working with different media. The film directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne film parts of their natal city to refer to specific political problems in interpersonal relations. The novelist Arundhati Roy uses her poetic language to make room for people’s desires; her fiction is utterly political and her political essays make place for the role of narratives and poetic language. Ai Weiwei uses references to Chinese history to give consistency to its ‘economic miracle’. Finally, Burial’s electronic music is firmly rooted in a living, breathing London; built to create a sound that is entirely new, and yet hauntingly familiar.
These artists create in their own way a space for politics in their works and their oeuvre but their singularity comes together as a desire to reconstruct the political space within art from its ruins. These ruins were brought by the disenchantment of 1970s: the end of art, postmodernism, and the rise of design, marketing and communication. Each artwork bears the mark of the resistance against the depoliticisation of society and the arts, at once rejecting cynicism and idealism, referring to themes and political concepts that are larger than their own domain. This book focuses on these productive tensions.
Benoît Dillet is an Assistant Lecturer in Political Thought at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent. Tara Puri is a Global Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick.
Introduction / 1. Aesthetics, Poetics and Techno-Aesthetics / 2. Left-over Spaces: The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers / 3.The Language of Politics in Arundhati Roy / 4. Ai Weiwei’s Useless Materials / 5. Burial’s Muffled Soundscape of London / Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.05.2016 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 9 b/w photos |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 239 mm |
| Gewicht | 386 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78348-567-1 / 1783485671 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78348-567-3 / 9781783485673 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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