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The Art of Diremption – On the Powerlessness of Art

Af: Parnal Chirmuley, Leonhard Emmerling Engelsk Hardback

The Art of Diremption – On the Powerlessness of Art

Af: Parnal Chirmuley, Leonhard Emmerling Engelsk Hardback
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An engaging exploration of the meaning and power of art that looks at popular theories through the ages.   One of the most astonishing aspects of the discourse on contemporary art is the firm and unwavering belief that art has the power to transform society for the better. There seems to be a consensus around the idea that art, especially visual art, is greatly suited to addressing all manner of social, political, economic, ecological, and other imbalances. Celebrated as a powerful remedy for social grievances, art finds its justification in the service it seems to provide to society.   But as art historian Leonhard Emmerling contends in this timely volume, this presumptuous heroism shows willful blindness towards art’s subjugation to contradictions inherent in social relations. He argues that the narrative of the power of art has its specific history. In trying to reconstruct this history in Art of Diremption, he discovers instead art’s fundamental powerlessness as the foundation for art’s political relevance. Art is weak, argues Emmerling. It, therefore, requires an ethics of weakness, which rejects the discourse of impact and power to enable a politics of art containing the permanence of reflection, the unreliability of thought, and the emergence of form as the event of the new. With a meticulously studied and well-argued case about the “powerlessness of art,” Art of Diremption will be an important contribution to the field of art, aesthetics, and philosophy.
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An engaging exploration of the meaning and power of art that looks at popular theories through the ages.   One of the most astonishing aspects of the discourse on contemporary art is the firm and unwavering belief that art has the power to transform society for the better. There seems to be a consensus around the idea that art, especially visual art, is greatly suited to addressing all manner of social, political, economic, ecological, and other imbalances. Celebrated as a powerful remedy for social grievances, art finds its justification in the service it seems to provide to society.   But as art historian Leonhard Emmerling contends in this timely volume, this presumptuous heroism shows willful blindness towards art’s subjugation to contradictions inherent in social relations. He argues that the narrative of the power of art has its specific history. In trying to reconstruct this history in Art of Diremption, he discovers instead art’s fundamental powerlessness as the foundation for art’s political relevance. Art is weak, argues Emmerling. It, therefore, requires an ethics of weakness, which rejects the discourse of impact and power to enable a politics of art containing the permanence of reflection, the unreliability of thought, and the emergence of form as the event of the new. With a meticulously studied and well-argued case about the “powerlessness of art,” Art of Diremption will be an important contribution to the field of art, aesthetics, and philosophy.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 164
ISBN-13: 9781803090344
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1803090340
Udg. Dato: 13 sep 2022
Længde: 16mm
Bredde: 158mm
Højde: 236mm
Forlag: Seagull Books London Ltd
Oplagsdato: 13 sep 2022
Forfatter(e) Parnal Chirmuley, Leonhard Emmerling


Kategori Kunst og kultur: generelt


ISBN-13 9781803090344


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 164


Udgave


Længde 16mm


Bredde 158mm


Højde 236mm


Udg. Dato 13 sep 2022


Oplagsdato 13 sep 2022


Forlag Seagull Books London Ltd

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