Brown Nicholas Brown

Autonomy (eBook, PDF)

The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism

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Produktbeschreibung

In Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how art can, in confronting its material determinations, suspend the logic of capital by demanding interpretive attention. He applies his readings of Marx, Hegel, Adorno, and Jameson to a range of literature, photography, music, television, and sculpture, from Cindy Sherman's photography and the novels of Ben Lerner and Jennifer Egan to The Wire and the music of the White Stripes. He demonstrates that through their attention and commitment to form, such artists turn aside the determination posed by the demand of the market, thereby defeating the foreclosure of meaning entailed in commodification. In so doing, he offers a new theory of art that prompts a rethinking of the relationship between art, critical theory, and capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478002673
• Artikelnr.: 56914588

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Brown is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature, and coeditor of Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. On Art and the Commodity Form  1
1. Photography as Film and Film as Photography  41
2. The Novel and the Ruse of the Work  79
3. Citation and Affect in Music  115
4. Modernism on TV  152
Epilogue. Taking Sides  178
Notes  183
Bibliography  207
Index  215