Poems and Parables on the Political Utility of Art - Couverture souple

Katz Lydén, Karl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 396436052X ISBN 13 : 9783964360526

Editeur : BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE UG (haftungsbeschrankt), 2021

Synopsis

Like a donkey dressed in zebra’s clothing, criticism can appear in a borrowed coat; perhaps it can even reveal itself in stolen poems. Here, among fables of donkeys, shoemakers and barricades, German angels and non-German angels, and a few lines from Emily Dickinson, the transformative possibilities of art are unfolded in the figure of labor. Poems and Parables on the Political Utility of Art is a small book. It looks like poetry, but it is better described as a kind of criticism. Taking up some recent disqualifications of art’s political potential, it refutes them in a threefold movement: against the notion of commodification of works of art; against the act of denouncing art as always-already reified from the safe position of a pure, untouched theory; against the notions that art must either reveal our alienation, or produce immediate effects on the social sphere. Outlining art’s transformative possibilities in the figure of a certain labor, the argument is shaped among fables of donkeys, zebras from Gaza, apes from Adorno, and a particular barricade from the Paris Commune.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE UG (haftungsbeschrankt)
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 396436052X
• ISBN 13: 9783964360526
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 92
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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