Conflictual Aesthetics Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere by Oliver Marchart

Conflictual Aesthetics Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere by Oliver Marchart

A new political theory of art and artistic praxis.

Leaping into current debates about the political efficacy of art, the essays in Conflictual Aesthetics critique the supposition that all art is inherently political. Opposed to the political art defended by art world functionaries that hides behind simplistic complexity, Oliver Marchart argues for a straightforwardly political theory of art and artistic praxis. At the intersection of art theory and radical politics, he proposes an aesthetics of agitating, propagating, and organizing, through which he problematizes and evaluates art in relation to activism or political propaganda, and addresses the radical potential of dance, theater, artistic re- and pre-enactments, public art, the curator, and the biennial.

Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty, New School University and at the University of Essex. He is the author and editor of many books.
Oliver Marchart is a lecturer in Cultural and Media Theory at the University of Basel and in Political Theory at the University of Vienna.

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ISBN 13	9783956792045
ISBN 10	3956792041
Title	Conflictual Aesthetics Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere
Author	Oliver Marchart
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sternberg Press
Year published	2020-06-02
Number of pages	192
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