The emancipated spectator
The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking. The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance. First asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, the auteur goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into …
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- Full title :The emancipated spectator / Jacques Rancière ; translated by Gregory Elliott.
Summary
The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking. The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance. First asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, the auteur goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved.
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- Publication Date:C 2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Verso
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:C 2009.
Notes
Traduit du français : "Le spectateur émancipé" (La Fabrique, cop. 2008).
Autre tirage : 2011 (br.).
The Physical Object
- Description:1 vol. (134 p.) ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:184467343X (rel), 9781844673438 (rel), 9781844677610 (br), 1844677613 (br)
- oclc:ocn919089050
- LC Classification:NX220
- Dewey Decimal:700.1
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