Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to theories of 'critical postmodernism' and beyond, Day counters the belief that recent tendencies in art fail to be adequately critical and challenges the political inertia that results from these conclusions.
Representing a new generation of theorists who reaffirm the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late-twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to t…
Representing a new generation of theorists who reaffirm the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late-twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to t…
Day covers the debates on symbol and allegory waged within the context of 1980s art and their relation to the writings of Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man. She also examines common conceptions of Mediation, totality, negation, and the politics of anticipation. A necessary unsettl…
Representing a new generation of theorists who reaffirm the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late-twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to t…
Art and sustainability: connecting patterns for a culture of complexity
by Kagan, Sacha
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Art and sustainability: connecting patterns for a culture of complexity
by Kagan, Sacha
fromImage
Art, politics and globalisation -- Jean-Luc Nancy and contemporary art -- Participatory art and 'spacing' -- Contemporary art and 'exscribing' -- Cultural institutions and 'co-appearing' -- Conclusion: Recomposing the image of the world. "This book explores how contemporary art…
"This book explores how contemporary art can alter the ways in which we visualise and conceptualise the world and the social relations that shape it. Drawing from the writings of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, it spotlights the concept of 'world-forming' and the political significa…
"This book explores how contemporary art can alter the ways in which we visualise and conceptualise the world and the social relations that shape it. Drawing from the writings of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, it spotlights the concept of 'world-forming' and the political significa…
