Sociopolitical Aesthetics: Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism
Author:   Kim Charnley (The Open University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350008748


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   11 February 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Kim Charnley (The Open University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9781350008748


ISBN 10:   1350008745
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   11 February 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Introduction: In what sense 'sociopolitical' aesthetics? 1. Collective impurities 2. Art, economics, reproductive labour 3. Kaleidoscopic Institutions 4. Materialities of the Neoliberal State 5. Art, Ignorance and the Pedagogic Turn 6. Documentary, Post-Truth and Realism 7. Crisis, Criticism and Contemporary Art Conclusion: Autonomy, Heteronomy, Solidarity? Bibliography Index

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Sociopolitical Aesthetics is without doubt the best political analysis of art's 'social turn', which it revisits through a reexamination of the contested meanings of collectivity and a re-reading of debates on aesthetics and politics within the context of neoliberalism, the globalisation of contemporary art and narratives of crisis. Charnley combines first rate art historical scholarship with razor sharp political analysis and an insider's understanding of contemporary art to explain the rise of socially engaged art against the prevailing wisdom that art as an institution must neutralise dissent, through co-optation, absorption, incorporation, and recuperate and by turning politics into aesthetics. What if, Charnley asks, the art system has reached the limit of its ability to contain the critical practices that occupy it. * Dave Beech, Reader in Art and Marxism, University of the Arts London, UK *


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Kim Charnley is Staff Tutor in Art History at The Open University, UK.

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