The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials: Spectacles of Critique, Theory and Art - Couverture rigide

Kompatsiaris, Panos

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1138184586 ISBN 13 : 9781138184589

Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

1 unité(s) de cet article soldée(s) à partir du 8 janvier 2020 8h (uniquement sur les unités vendues et expédiées par Amazon)

Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the ‘elitist’ and the ‘popular’, where the likes of Jeff Koons encounter the likes of Guy Debord, where Angela Davis and Franz Fanon share the same ground with neoliberal cultural policy makers and creative entrepreneurs. Building on the legacy of events that conjoin art, critical theory and counterculture, from Nova Convention to documenta IX, the new biennial embodies at once an ethos of avant-garde resistance and an industrialized politics of creativity. This book examines a strained period for these high art institutions, a period when their politics are brought into question in the context of austerity, crisis and the rise of Occupy cultures. Using the 3rd Athens Biennale and the 7th Berlin Biennale as its main case studies, it looks at how the in-built tensions between the domains of art and politics take shape when spectacular displays attempt to operate as immediate activist sites. Drawing on ethnographic research and contemporary cultural theory, this book explores how biennials both denunciate aesthetic value as a bourgeois category and simultaneously diffuse and replicate its form varyingly across social landscapes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Panos Kompatsiaris is Assistant Professor of Art and Media at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. He holds a PhD in art theory from the University of Edinburgh (2015) and has contributed to journals and edited volumes with texts on art and media theory, ethnography and cultural studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138184586
• ISBN 13: 9781138184589
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 206
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne