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The Sovereign Self
Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde
Taschenbuch von Grant H. Kester
Sprache: Englisch

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In The Sovereign Self, Grant H. Kester examines the evolving discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kester traces the idea of aesthetic autonomy-the sense that art should be autonomous from social forces while retaining the ability to reflect back critically on society-through Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Marx, and Adorno. Kester critiques the use of aesthetic autonomy as the basis for understanding the nature of art and the shifting relationship between art and revolutionary praxis. He shows that dominant discourses of aesthetic autonomy reproduce the very forms of bourgeois liberalism that autonomy discourse itself claims to challenge. Analyzing avant-garde art and political movements in Russia, India, Latin America, and elsewhere, Kester retheorizes the aesthetic beyond autonomy. Ultimately, Kester demonstrates that the question of aesthetic autonomy has ramifications that extend beyond art to encompass the nature of political transformation and forms of anticolonial resistance that challenge the Eurocentric concept of "Man," upon which the aesthetic itself often depends.
In The Sovereign Self, Grant H. Kester examines the evolving discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kester traces the idea of aesthetic autonomy-the sense that art should be autonomous from social forces while retaining the ability to reflect back critically on society-through Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Marx, and Adorno. Kester critiques the use of aesthetic autonomy as the basis for understanding the nature of art and the shifting relationship between art and revolutionary praxis. He shows that dominant discourses of aesthetic autonomy reproduce the very forms of bourgeois liberalism that autonomy discourse itself claims to challenge. Analyzing avant-garde art and political movements in Russia, India, Latin America, and elsewhere, Kester retheorizes the aesthetic beyond autonomy. Ultimately, Kester demonstrates that the question of aesthetic autonomy has ramifications that extend beyond art to encompass the nature of political transformation and forms of anticolonial resistance that challenge the Eurocentric concept of "Man," upon which the aesthetic itself often depends.
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Grant H. Kester
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction 1
I. From Beauty to Dissensus
1. Freedom and Sovereignty 19
2. Communism and the Aesthetic State 48
II. Negation and Performativity
3. From Vanguard to Avant-Garde 85
4. Activism and Autonomy in the 1960s 108
III. Autonomy since the 1980s
5. The Rise of the Neo-Avant-Garde 145
6. The Hirschhorn Monument: Autonomy as Brand and Alibi 180
Conclusion. Aesthetics beyond Semblance 212
Notes 219
Works Cited 243
Index 259
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781478020424
ISBN-10: 1478020423
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kester, Grant H.
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Grant H. Kester
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,459 kg
Artikel-ID: 123546389
Über den Autor
Grant H. Kester
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction 1
I. From Beauty to Dissensus
1. Freedom and Sovereignty 19
2. Communism and the Aesthetic State 48
II. Negation and Performativity
3. From Vanguard to Avant-Garde 85
4. Activism and Autonomy in the 1960s 108
III. Autonomy since the 1980s
5. The Rise of the Neo-Avant-Garde 145
6. The Hirschhorn Monument: Autonomy as Brand and Alibi 180
Conclusion. Aesthetics beyond Semblance 212
Notes 219
Works Cited 243
Index 259
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781478020424
ISBN-10: 1478020423
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kester, Grant H.
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Grant H. Kester
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,459 kg
Artikel-ID: 123546389
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