Art power / Boris Groys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Groĭs, Boris.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Political aspects.

Art.

Art and state.

Art, Modern--20th century--Philosophy.

Art, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideological function. Art, Groys writes, is produced and brought before the public in two ways-- as a commodity and as a tool of political propaganda. In the contemporary art scene, very little attention is paid to the latter function. <br /><br />Arguing for the inclusion of politically motivated art in contemporary art discourse, Groys considers art produced under totalitarianism, Socialism and post-Communism. He also considers today's mainstream Western art-- which he finds behaving more and more according the norms of ideological propaganda: produced and exhibited for the masses at international exhibitions, biennials and festivals. Contemporary art, Groys argues, demonstrates its power by appropriating the iconoclastic gestures directed against itself-- by positioning itself simultaneously as an image and as a critique of the image. In Art Power, Groys examines this fundamental appropriation that produces the paradoxical object of the modern artwork.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

The Logic of Equal Aesthetic Rights

On the New

On the Curatorship

Art in the Age of Biopolitics: From Artwork to Art Documentation

Iconoclasm as an Artistic Device: Iconoclastic Strategies in Film

From Image to Image File-and Back: Art in the Age of Digitalization

Multiple Authorship

The City in the Age of Touristic Reproduction

Critical Reflections

Art at War

The Hero's Body: Adolf Hitler's Art Theory

Educating the Masses: Socialist Realist Art

Beyond Diversity: Cultural Studies and Its Post-Communist Other

Privatizations, or Artificial Paradises of Post-Communism

Europe and Its Others

Notes

Sources.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-[190]).

ISBN:

0-262-26077-8

1-282-10084-X

9786612100840

0-262-27444-2

1-4356-3172-2

OCLC:

463187167