e-flux journal: Boris Groys Going Public

'If all things in the world can be considered as sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Following his recent books Art Power and The Communist Postscript, in Going Public Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art—which always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.' (Back Cover of the book)

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Onsite

author

Boris GROYS

publisher

Sternberg Press (Berlin, Germany)

Location code

REF.GRB2

Language

English

Keyword

art theory, art criticism

Publication/Creation date

2010

No of pages

168

ISBN / ISSN

9781934105306

No of copies

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Introduction: Poetics vs. Aesthetics

The Obligation to Self-Design

The Production of Sincerity

Politics of Installation

The Loneliness of the Project

Comrades of Time

The Weak Universalism

Marx after Duchamp, or the Artist's Two Bodies

Religion in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Immortal Bodies

e-flux journal: Boris Groys Going Public

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Art Writing

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