Title Beyond the sovereign self : aesthetic autonomy from the avant-garde to socially engaged art / Grant H. Kester

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations Contents The incommensurability of socially engaged art -- Escrache and autonomy -- Dematerialization and aesthetics in real time -- The aesthetics of answerability -- Social labor and communicative action -- Our pernicious temporality -- Being human as praxis -- Afterword: Beyond the white wall Summary "In Beyond the Sovereign Self 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. Instead of grounding art in its distance from the social, Kester shows how socially engaged art, developed in conjunction with forms of social or political resistance, encourages the creative capacity required for collective political transformation. Among others, Kester analyzes the work of conceptual artist Adrian Piper, experimental practices associated with the escrache tradition in Argentina, and indigenous Canadian artists such as Nadia Myer and Michèle Taïna Audette, showing how socially engaged art catalyzes forms of resistance that operate beyond the institutional art world. From the Americas and Europe to Iran and South Africa, Kester presents a historical genealogy of recent engaged art practices rooted in a deep history of cultural production, beginning with nineteenth-century political struggles and continuing into contemporary anticolonial resistance and other social movements"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed May 22, 2024) Subject Art -- Philosophy. Art criticism. Autonomy (Psychology) in art. Subjectivity in art. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century Art, Modern -- Political aspects Art and society -- History -- 20th century art criticism. ART / Criticism & Theory Art and society Art criticism Art, Modern -- Political aspects Art -- Philosophy Autonomy (Psychology) in art Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Subjectivity in art Form Electronic book Genre/Form History Art criticism. Critiques d'art. LC no. 2023002548 ISBN 1478027479 9781478027478

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