'Contemporary art is increasingly part of a wider network of cultural practices, related through a common set of references in cultural theory. Within Europe, relations between national theoretical traditions have become more fluid and dynamic, creating an increasingly transnational—or postnational—space for European cultural and art theory. This book offers a snapshot of recent influential work in contemporary art and political theory in France, Italy, and Germany, in the form of original writings by major representatives of each of the three overlapping national traditions.
In France, debates center on the status and possibilities of the image. Éric Alliez, Georges Didi-Huberman, Elisabeth Lebovici, and Jacques Rancière each adopt a distinctive approach to the making, undoing, and remaking of aesthetic images in contemporary art and their political significance. From Italy, Antonio Negri, Maurizio Lazzarato, Judith Revel, and Franco Berardi each address the “immaterial” situation of contemporary art. From Germany, Peter Sloterdijk, Peter Weibel, and Boris Groys reassess the contemporary legacy of postwar art, demonstrating appropriations of vitalism, structuralism, and deconstruction, respectively.' (From publisher's website)
With notes on contributors and index.
Onsite
English
2013
160
9780262518437
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anthology
Introduction - Peter OSBORNE, Éric ALLIEZ
The Aesthetic Image
1 Notes on the Photographic Image - Jacques RANCIERE
2 People Exposed, People as Extras - Georges DIDI-HUBERMAN
3 Body without Image: Ernesto Neto's Anti-Leviathan - Éric ALLIEZ
4 This is Not My Body - Elisabeth LEBOVICI
Art and Immaterial Labour
5 Metamorphoses - Antonio NEGRI
6 Art, Work and Politics in Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Security - Maurizio LAZZARATO
7 The Materiality of the Immaterial: Foucault, Against the Return of Idealisms and New Vitalisms - Judith REVEL
8 (T)error and Poetry - Franco BERARDI
Art, War, Avant-Garde
9 War on Latency: On Some Relations between Surrealism and Terror - Peter SLOTERDIJK
10 Re-presentation of the Repressed: The Political Revolution of the Neo-avant-garde - Peter WEIBEL
The Politics of Equal Aesthetic Rights - Boris GROYS
Spheres of Action: Art and Politics
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