A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of
art's complex relationship to power. Art has its own power in the
world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics
today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues
the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless
commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and
exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art
according to its ideological function. Art, Groys writes, is
produced and brought before the public in two ways-as a commodity
and as a tool of political propaganda. In the contemporary art
scene, very little attention is paid to the latter function.
Arguing for the inclusion of politically motivated art in
contemporary art discourse, Groys considers art produced under
totalitarianism, Socialism, and post-Communism. He also considers
today's mainstream Western art-which he finds behaving more and
more according the norms of ideological propaganda: produced and
exhibited for the masses at international exhibitions, biennials,
and festivals. Contemporary art, Groys argues, demonstrates its
power by appropriating the iconoclastic gestures directed against
itself-by positioning itself simultaneously as an image and as a
critique of the image. In Art Power, Groys examines this
fundamental appropriation that produces the paradoxical object of
the modern artwork.
General
| Imprint: |
MIT Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
The Mit Press |
| Release date: |
February 2013 |
| First published: |
2008 |
| Authors: |
Boris Groys
(Global Distinguished Professor)
|
| Dimensions: |
227 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
187 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-262-51868-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
The arts: general issues >
Theory of art
|
| LSN: |
0-262-51868-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780262518680 |
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