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The Political Space of Art - The Dardenne Brothers, Arundhati Roy, Ai Weiwei and Burial (Paperback)
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The Political Space of Art - The Dardenne Brothers, Arundhati Roy, Ai Weiwei and Burial (Paperback)
Series: Experiments/On the Political
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This book studies the tension between arts and politics in four
contemporary artists from different countries, working with
different media. The film directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
film parts of their natal city to refer to specific political
problems in interpersonal relations. The novelist Arundhati Roy
uses her poetic language to make room for people's desires; her
fiction is utterly political and her political essays make place
for the role of narratives and poetic language. Ai Weiwei uses
references to Chinese history to give consistency to its 'economic
miracle'. Finally, Burial's electronic music is firmly rooted in a
living, breathing London; built to create a sound that is entirely
new, and yet hauntingly familiar. These artists create in their own
way a space for politics in their works and their oeuvre but their
singularity comes together as a desire to reconstruct the political
space within art from its ruins. These ruins were brought by the
disenchantment of 1970s: the end of art, postmodernism, and the
rise of design, marketing and communication. Each artwork bears the
mark of the resistance against the depoliticisation of society and
the arts, at once rejecting cynicism and idealism, referring to
themes and political concepts that are larger than their own
domain. This book focuses on these productive tensions.
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