Artmaking in the age of global capitalism : visual practices, philosophy, politics / Jan Bryant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryant, Jan (Jan P.), author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society.

Capitalism.

Art--Economic aspects.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 264 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Jan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and filmmakers are using to criticise the social and economic conditions shaping our historical moment. She then assesses how the world is being positively re-imagined through their work today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Gift of Being Disgusted

Part I Still Deep in the Bones of the Bourgeoisie

Still Deep in the Bones of the Bourgeoisie: Introduction

1 Benjamin’s Challenge for the Twenty-first Century

2 A Community of Sense

3 Crisis on the Left

4 ‘Efficient Market Ideology’

Part II Encounters from the Twentieth Century

Encounters from the Twentieth Century: Introduction

5 Encounter One: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Italo Calvino

6 Encounter Two: Lefebvre and Blanchot

7 Encounter Three: Art and the Socialist State

Part III Political-Aesthetics and Contemporary Artists

Political-Aesthetics and Contemporary Artists: Introduction

8 Frances Barrett – A Politics to Come

9 Claire Denis – The Intruder

10 The Politics of Painting: Cliché, Fashion, Mimesis

11 Alex Monteith – Na Trioblóidí and Decolonising Tactics

Conclusion

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [234]-254) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7686-4

1-4744-5696-0

OCLC:

1306541410