The Future of the Image

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• Jacques Rancière

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• 160 Seiten
• 6 Lesestunden

• Kunst
• Kunst & Kultur
• Philosophie
• Politikwissenschaft
• Sachliteratur

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Lauded by major contemporary artists and philosophers, Jacques Rancière’s work returns politics to its central place in understanding art. In The Future of the Image,Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image incontemporary art, showing how art and politics have always beenintrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, filmmakers such as Godard and Bresson, andthinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard andGreenberg, Rancière shows that contemporary theorists of the image aresuffering from religious tendencies. He argues that there is a starkpolitical choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy,or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Rancière there is never apure art: the aesthetic revolution must always embrace egalitarianideals.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Einband: Paperback