{"product_id":"going-public-book-boris-groys-9781934105306","title":"Going Public","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf all things in the world can be considered as sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Following his recent books \u003ci\u003eArt Power\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Postscript\u003c\/i\u003e, in \u003ci\u003eGoing Public\u003c\/i\u003e Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art--which always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoris Groys is Professor at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Design, Karlsruhe. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Total Art of Stalinism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIlya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArt Power\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Postscript\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHistory Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ee-flux journal Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49578754900241,"sku":"GOR013717720","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49862386221329,"sku":"GOR008557288","price":104.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51695264268561,"sku":"CIN1934105309G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1934105309.jpg?v=1750901080","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/going-public-book-boris-groys-9781934105306","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}