The Political Power of Visual Art
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-18237-0 (ISBN)
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.
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).
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.04.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 136 x 212 mm |
| Gewicht | 280 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-18237-0 / 1350182370 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-18237-0 / 9781350182370 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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