Focusing on the confrontation between global politics and symbolic creative expression, Singh shows how, by integrating themselves into international markets, entertainment industries give rise to far-reaching cultural anxieties.
Our interactive world can take a cultural product, such as a Hollywood film, Bollywood song, or Latin American telenovela, and transform it into a source of cultural anxiety. What does this artwork say about the artist or the world she works in? How will these artworks evolve in…
"Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future"--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Au-delà des débats sur la crise de l'art ou la mort de l'image qui rejouent l'interminable scène de la fin des utopies, le présent texte voudrait établir quelques conditions d'intelligibilité du lien qui noue esthétique et politique. Il propose pour cela d'en revenir à l'inscrip…
A Journey of Art and Conflict: Weaving Indra's Net is a deeply personal exploration of David Oddie's attempts to uncover the potential of the arts as a resource for reconciliation in the wake of conflict and for the creative transformation of conflict itself. It began when Oddie…
Tzvetan Todorov explores the complex relations between art, politics and ethics in the two essays that make up The Limits of Art. In the first essay, 'Artists and Dictators', he traces the intimate relationship between avant-garde art and radical politics in pre-revolutionary Ru…
Martin Puchner tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the political manifestos of the 19th and 20th centuries. He argues that the manifesto was the genre through which modern culture articulated itsrevolutionary ambitions and desires.
Martin Puchner tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the political manifestos of the 19th and 20th centuries. He argues that the manifesto was the genre through which modern culture articulated its revolutionary ambitions and desires.