Beyond the sovereign self: aesthetic autonomy from the avant-garde to socially engaged art
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Main Author: Kester, Grant H. 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham ; London Duke University Press 2024
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Abstract:"In Beyond the Sovereign Self Grant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater possibilities for critical practice. Instead of grounding art in its distance from the social, Kester shows how socially engaged art, developed in conjunction with forms of social or political resistance, encourages the creative capacity required for collective political transformation. Among others, Kester analyzes the work of conceptual artist Adrian Piper, experimental practices associated with the escrache tradition in Argentina, and indigenous Canadian artists such as Nadia Myer and Michèle Taïna Audette, showing how socially engaged art catalyzes forms of resistance that operate beyond the institutional art world. From the Americas and Europe to Iran and South Africa, Kester presents a historical genealogy of recent engaged art practices rooted in a deep history of cultural production, beginning with nineteenth-century political struggles and continuing into contemporary anticolonial resistance and other social movements"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:283 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781478025344
9781478020585