Art Power
$54.07
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
8 February 2013
Summary
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 funct…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262518680 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262518686 |
| Author: | Boris Groys |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 8 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Critics Review
By probing unacknowledged, repressed, or otherwise unexamined relationships that hover in the background of art-world conversation, Art Power recombines categories, reconfigures assumptions, and, in the end, reimagines what art writing can be.
—Matthew Jesse Jackson, BookforumIt’s a seemingly unlimited supply of surprising, even audacious truths that many invested in the art world might prefer not to think too hard about.
—Canadian ArtThe range of topics canvassed in Art Power is impressive…. All of these subjects have been comprehensively treated elsewhere, but rarely with Groys’ penetrating eye for the unexpected upshot of such developments.
—FriezeAbout The Author
Boris Groys
Boris Groys is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He is the author of Art Power, History Becomes Form- Moscow Conceptualism (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.
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