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This is Not Art: Activism and Other ´Not-Art´
Alana Jelinek
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Description for This is Not Art: Activism and Other ´Not-Art´
Paperback. Alana Jelinek returns to the question 'what is art?', retelling the history of art practice and exposing the ways in which neoliberal norms and values have seeped into every aspect of our lives and explores it from her unique perspective as a practicing artist and theoretician. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20 integrated bw illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 222.
Art is not political action. Art is not education. Art does not exist to make society stronger, or the world a better place. Art disrupts and resists the comfortable, the stiflingly familiar and the status quo, or it only serves to deaden a disenfranchised society further. So argues This Is Not Art, a radical and vigorous critique that debunks myths about art in order to celebrate its real and unique importance. With the postmodern deconstruction of now-outdated shibboleths such as 'genius', 'authenticity' and 'beauty', new and neoliberal myths about art have arisen to take their place: that art's value ... Read more
Art is not political action. Art is not education. Art does not exist to make society stronger, or the world a better place. Art disrupts and resists the comfortable, the stiflingly familiar and the status quo, or it only serves to deaden a disenfranchised society further. So argues This Is Not Art, a radical and vigorous critique that debunks myths about art in order to celebrate its real and unique importance. With the postmodern deconstruction of now-outdated shibboleths such as 'genius', 'authenticity' and 'beauty', new and neoliberal myths about art have arisen to take their place: that art's value ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848858572
SKU
V9781848858572
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About Alana Jelinek
Alana Jelinek is AHRC fellow at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
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