Sociopolitical Aesthetics

Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism

Kim Charnley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-00873-1 (ISBN)

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Since the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ambiguously, as interventions that are somewhere between art and politics. This book surveys the resurgence of politicized art, tracing key currents of theory and practice, and mapping them against the dominant experience of the last decade: crisis.

Drawing upon leading artists and theorists within this field – including Hito Steyerl, Marina Vishmidt, Art & Language, Gregory Sholette, John Roberts and Dave Beech – this book argues for a new interpretation of the relationship between socially-engaged art and neoliberalism. Kim Charnley explores the possibility that neoliberalism has destabilized the art system so that it is no longer able to absorb and neutralize dissent. As a result, the relationship between aesthetics and politics is experienced with fresh urgency and militancy.

Kim Charnley is Staff Tutor in Art History at The Open University, UK.

Introduction: In what sense ‘sociopolitical’ aesthetics?

1. Collective impurities

2. Art, economics, reproductive labour

3. Kaleidoscopic Institutions

4. Materialities of the Neoliberal State

5. Art, Ignorance and the Pedagogic Turn

6. Documentary, Post-Truth and Realism

7. Crisis, Criticism and Contemporary Art

Conclusion: Autonomy, Heteronomy, Solidarity?

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Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2021
Reihe/Serie	Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art
Zusatzinfo	15 b/w illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	136 x 214 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	1-350-00873-7 / 1350008737
ISBN-13	978-1-350-00873-1 / 9781350008731
Zustand	Neuware