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Sociopolitical Aesthetics: Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism

Sociopolitical Aesthetics: Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism

Charnley, Kim
Whiteley, Gillian
Tormey, Jane

Paperback

Series: Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art

PhilosophyArt Criticism & Theory

ISBN10: 1350008737
ISBN13: 9781350008731
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 11 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Since the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ambiguously, as interventions that are somewhere between art and politics. This book surveys the resurgence of politicized art, tracing key currents of theory and practice, and mapping them against the dominant experience of the last decade: crisis.

Drawing upon leading artists and theorists within this field - including Hito Steyerl, Marina Vishmidt, Art & Language, Gregory Sholette, John Roberts and Dave Beech - this book argues for a new interpretation of the relationship between socially-engaged art and neoliberalism. Kim Charnley explores the possibility that neoliberalism has destabilized the art system so that it is no longer able to absorb and neutralize dissent. As a result, the relationship between aesthetics and politics is experienced with fresh urgency and militancy.

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