Grant H. Kester

The Sovereign Self

Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781478019961
• ISBN-10: 1478019964
• Artikelnr.: 65341017

Autorenporträt

Grant H. Kester is Professor of Art History at the University of California, San Diego, author of Beyond the Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art 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. From Beauty to Dissensus
1. Freedom and Sovereignty  19
2. Communism and the Aesthetic State  48
II. Negation and Performativity
3. From Vanguard to Avant-Garde  85
4. Activism and Autonomy in the 1960s  108
III. Autonomy since the 1980s
5. The Rise of the Neo-Avant-Garde  145
6. The Hirschhorn Monument: Autonomy as Brand and Alibi  180
Conclusion. Aesthetics beyond Semblance  212
Notes  219
Works Cited  243
Index  259