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Practical Aesthetics: Events, Affects and Art After 9/11: Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art

Autor Jill Bennett
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 aug 2012
Practical Aesthetics brings a pursuit, long seen as rarefied and indulgent, out of the ivory tower and down to Ground Zero. Theoretically ambitious, fiercely original, it is a radical new account of art's rootedness in the social world and of the value of aesthetics to contemporary society. Beginning with the cultural watershed of 9/11, internationally-renowned scholar Jill Bennett explores artistic developments in relation to current events to argue that understanding aesthetics is as vital to social and political theory as it is to the arts. Taking as its starting-point a definition of art as the critical, self-conscious manipulation of media, Bennett examines a wide range of events from the "War on Terror" to the football World Cup to elucidate how aesthetic perception works in a social field, a process that begins with the rich emotional content of the visual imagery with which we are constantly bombarded. Now more than ever, Bennett argues, understanding how what we see informs what we do is not merely an artistic endeavour but one which is fundamental to our very being.Part of the Radical Aesthetics, Radical Art series, this book challenges the notion that art and 'real life' are somehow opposed. Practical Aesthetics proposes a new way of reading contemporary artworks - and a new understanding of how fundamental art is to our social survival.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781780761459
ISBN-10: 1780761457
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 30 integrated bw, 24 colour in 16pp plates
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Seria Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Jill Bennett is Professor and Director of the National Institute for Environmental Arts, and Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Empathic Vision (2005), a study of art and traumatic events.

Cuprins

1. PRACTICAL AESTHETICS: BEYOND DISCIPLINES2. ONE EVENT AFTER ANOTHER 3. ATMOSPHERIC AFFECTS: PAST EVENTS AND PRESENT FEELING4 INTERMEDIA: FIELD AND DETAIL 5 THE PRESENCE OF POLITICIANS 6 UNIMAGINABLE EVENTS AND DISTANT DISASTERS 7 COMPASSION, RESENTMENT AND THE EMOTIONAL LIFE OF IMAGES