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The Aesthetic Exception : Essays on Art, Theatre, and Politics / Tony Fisher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, Tony, 1964- author.
- Series:
- Manchester scholarship online.
- Manchester scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and state.
- Politics in art.
- Arts--Political aspects.
- Arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white) ;
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- The aesthetic exception critically re-evaluates the relation between art and politics by challenging longstanding assumptions surrounding political 'effect' in art and the problem of art's autonomous status. Drawing on examples from visual art and theatre, it offers a new approach based on a conjunctural understanding of how art becomes political.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The horizon of the aesthetic
- Part I: The aesthetic exception
- The paradox of the aesthetic exception
- Crossing the threshold
- The institution of art: Critical and theoretical reflections
- Part II: Political art after the communicative turn
- The classical debate revisited: Sartre, Brecht, Adorno
- Art of the communicative turn: Habermas and the political
- What is the proper way to display a US flag?: The work of 'dissensual speech' in art
- Part III: Taxonomy of the political theatre
- Foundational problems and problems of foundation
- Displacement effects: Althusser's 'Brecht' and the theatre of the conjuncture
- Activist theatre of the conjuncture: Janam and the politics of the street theatre in India
- The 'closure' of the political theatre (and the critique of postdramatic reason)
- The political theatre 'redefined'
- The theatre of the planetary conjuncture: Milo Rau's Congo Tribunal
- On taxonomic strategies
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 1, 2023).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781526179654
- 1526179652
- 9781526170170
- 1526170175
- OCLC:
- 1382782523
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