The Future of the ImageA major philosopher presents a fascinating treatise on the radical future of art and film. In The Future of the Image, Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Ranciere argues that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from religious tendencies. Furthermore, he claims that many avant-garde practices are susceptible to being hijacked by power, despite the claims of those who support them. He suggests that there is a stark political choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy, or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Ranciere, there is never a pure art: the aesthetic revolution has always meant the creation of a liberatory egalitarian social space. |
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... artistic practices of the image / hieroglyph and the suspensive image into the social negotia- tion of resemblances . Balzac and a number of his peers had no hesitation about engaging in this exercise , ensuring the two- way ...
... artistic practices of the image / hieroglyph and the suspensive image into the social negotia- tion of resemblances . Balzac and a number of his peers had no hesitation about engaging in this exercise , ensuring the two- way ...
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... artistic advisor to the electricity company ; and his art consists in designing objects that sell well and con- structing catalogues and posters that stimulate sales . In addi- tion , he becomes a pioneer of the standardization and ...
... artistic advisor to the electricity company ; and his art consists in designing objects that sell well and con- structing catalogues and posters that stimulate sales . In addi- tion , he becomes a pioneer of the standardization and ...
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... artistic advisor to AEG and uses Ruskin's principles to design the firm's logos and adverts , the neo - Gothic idyll reveals its prosaic truth : the production line . That is one way of explaining things . But it is not the most ...
... artistic advisor to AEG and uses Ruskin's principles to design the firm's logos and adverts , the neo - Gothic idyll reveals its prosaic truth : the production line . That is one way of explaining things . But it is not the most ...
Contents
The Future of the Image | 1 |
Sentence Image History | 33 |
Painting in the Text | 69 |
Copyright | |
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