Grant H. Kester

Beyond the Sovereign Self

Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781478025344
• ISBN-10: 1478025344
• Artikelnr.: 67744970

Autorenporträt

Grant H. Kester is Professor of Art History at the University of California, San Diego, author of The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde and The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context, and coeditor of Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995–2010, all also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction  1
I. Within and Beyond the Canon
1. The Incommensurablity of Socially Engaged Art  33
2. Escrache and Autonomy  54
II. From Object to Event
3. Dematerialization and Aesthetics in Real Time  85
4. The Aesthetic of Answerability  105
III. A Dialogical Aesthetic
5. Social Labor and Communicative Action  137
6. Our Pernicious Temporality  171
7. Being Human as Praxis  202
Conclusion. Beyond the White Wall  229
Notes  235
Works Cited  255
Index  271