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Against Value in the Arts and Education (Hardcover)
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Against Value in the Arts and Education (Hardcover)
Series: Disruptions
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Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often
the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by
suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its
painful truths, and by instrumentalizing its ambivalence. The
result is that rather than expanding the autonomy of thought and
feeling of the artist and the audience, art's defenders make art
self-satisfied, or otherwise an echo-chamber for the limited and
limiting self-description of people's lives lived in an "audit
culture", a culture pervaded by the direct and indirect excrescence
of practices of accountability. This book diagnoses the
counter-intuitive effects of the rhetoric of value. It posits that
the auditing of values pervades the fabric of people's work-lives,
their education, and increasingly their everyday experience. The
book uncovers figures of resentment, disenchantment and alienation
fostered by the dogma of value. It argues instead that value
judgments can behave insidiously, and incorporate aesthetic,
ethical or ideological values fundamentally opposed to the "value"
they purportedly name and describe. The collection contains
contributions from leading scholars in the UK and US with
contributions from anthropology, the history of art, literature,
education, musicology, political science, and philosophy.
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