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OverviewThis collection examines key aesthetic avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century and their relationships with revolutionary politics. The contributors distinguish aesthetic avant-gardes -whose artists aim to transform society and the ways of sensing the world through political means-from the artistic avant-gardes, which focus on transforming representation. Following the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Schiller and Jacques Ranciere, the contributors argue that the aesthetic is inherently political and that aesthetic avant-garde art is essential for political revolution. In addition to analyzing Russian constructivsm, surrealism, and Situationist International, the contributors examine Italian futurism's model of integrating art with politics and life, the murals of revolutionary Mexico and Nicaragua, 1960s American art, and the Slovenian art collective NSK's construction of a fictional political state in the 1990s. Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements traces the common foundations and goals shared by these disparate arts communities and shows how their art worked towards effecting political and social change. Contributors. John E. Bowlt, Sascha Bru, David Craven, Ales Erjavec, Tyrus Miller, Raymond Spiteri, Misko Suvakovic Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aleš ErjavecPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780822358725ISBN 10: 0822358727 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 09 June 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Aleš Erjavec 1 1. Politics as the Art of the Impossible: The Heteronomy of Italian Futurist Art-Action / Sascha Bru 19 2. 5 X 5 = 25? The Science of Constructivism / John E. Bowlt 42 3. Convulsive Beauty: Surrealism as Aesthetic Revolution / Raymond Spiteri 80 4. Aesthetic Avant-Gardes and Revolutionary Movements from Modern Latin America / David Craven 113 5. All along the Watchtower: Aesthetic Revolution in the United States during the 1960s / Tyrus Miller 145 6. From Unitary Urbanism to the Society of the Spectacle: The Situationist Aesthetic Revolution / Raymond Spiteri 178 7. NSK: Cricial Phenomenology of the State / Miško Šuvakovic 215 Conclusion. Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, and Aesthetics / Aleš Erjavec 255 Bibliography 287 Contributors 311 Index 313ReviewsThis is a quite remarkable collection that profiles the art/politics relationship as it was concretely negotiated at key moments throughout the twentieth century. No other study enables us to look so closely to see just what the art/politics relation amounted to or, more exactly, what was the real relationship between artistic practice and revolutionary social transformation. --Terry Smith, author of Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity This is a quite remarkable collection that profiles the art/politics relationship as it was concretely negotiated at key moments throughout the twentieth century. No other study enables us to look so closely to see just what the art/politics relation amounted to--or, more exactly, what was the real relationship between artistic practice and revolutionary social transformation --Terry Smith, author of Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity Author InformationAleš Erjavec is Research Professor in the Institute of Philosophy of the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the author of Postmodernism, Postsocialism and Beyond, and the editor of Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition: Politicized Art under Late Socialism. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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