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Art Rebellion - The Aesthetics of Social Transformation (Paperback)
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Art Rebellion - The Aesthetics of Social Transformation (Paperback)
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Art has always been central to moments of great social change. From
the avant-garde to the ages of revolution, the act of rebellious
creation has been crucial to bringing people and ideas together.
However, in an increasingly fractured world characterised by
upheaval and crisis, what role can art play in ushering in
transformation? Malcolm Miles offers a guide to contemporary art
and activism, setting it firmly within the context of the avant
garde and its legacies in the postwar period. He explores the rise
of direct action to replace representational politics in
organizations like Occupy and Extinction Rebellion, and in the
movements to destroy or remove statues of slavers, and finds
parallels in anti-institutional art practices. By engaging with the
significant theoretical innovations of the last 50 years -
modernism, postmodernism and contemporary critical thinking - Miles
provides both an overview of political aesthetics and an
introduction to how art activism works in its most memorable
moments in history. Art Rebellion argues that beauty is radically
other to the dominant society; that power relations can be
transformed; that protest cultures and contemporary art grow
together; and that art has a crucial interruptive role in forming
new, more equal and just, realities.
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