Kester Beyond the Sovereign Self

Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2747-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kester, Grant H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.