Tony Fisher The Aesthetic Exception (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Aesthetic ExceptionCondition: NewSubtitle: Essays on Art, Theatre, and PoliticsISBN-10: 1526170167EAN: 9781526170163ISBN: 9781526170163Publisher: Manchester University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/13/2023Description: The aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics. It challenges critical trends that discount the role of aesthetic autonomy, to impulsively reassert art as an effective form of social engagement. But it equally challenges those on the flipside of the efficacy debate, who insist that art’s politics is limited to a recondite space of ‘autonomous resistance’. The book shows how each side of the efficacy debate overlooks art’s exceptional status and its social mediations. Mobilising philosophy and cultural theory, and employing examples from visual art, performance, and theatre, it proposes four alternative tests to ‘effect’ to offer a nuanced account of art’s political character. Those tests examine how art relates to politics as a practice that articulates its historical conjuncture, and how it prefigures the ‘new’ through simulations capable of activating the political life of the spectator.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Tony FisherGenre: Music Dance & TheatreItem Width: 17mmItem Weight: 581gTopic: Literary Criticism, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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