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Revolts in Cultural Critique

Revolts in Cultural Critique

Buikema, Rosemarie

Paperback

Series: New Critical Humanities

Art Criticism & TheoryGeneral Political ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1786614049
ISBN13: 9781786614049
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Nov 27 2020
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Centered around the relationship between art and political transformation. From Charlottë Bronte and Virginia Woolf, to Marlene van Niekerk and William Kentridge, artists and intellectuals have tried to address the question: How to deal with the legacy of exclusion and oppression? Via substantive works of art, this book examines some of the answers that have emerged to this question, to show how art can put into motion something new and how it can transform social and cultural relations in a sustainable way. In this way, art can function as an effective form of cultural critique.

In the course of this book, a range of artworks are examined, through a postcolonial and feminist lens, in which revolt--both as a theme and as a medium-specific technique or/as critique --is made visible. Time and time again, revolt takes the form of a slow and thorough working through of the position of the individual in relation to her history and her contemporary geopolitical circumstances. It thus becomes evident that renewal and transformation in art and society are most successful when they proceed according to the method of self-reflexive cultural critique; when they do not present themselves as revolution, radical breaks with the past, but rather as processes of revolt in which knowledge of the past is investigated, complemented, corrected, and bent to a new collective will.

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