The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary
Notes in Defense of an Idea of Emancipation
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- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2025
Summary
An essay-length argument for the autonomy of art in the present.
Over recent decades, a post-critical theoretical and methodological paradigm has become increasingly dominant in the human sciences. Proponents of this approach have come to dismiss the idea—central to all modern aesthetics—of the autonomy of art.
Written by critic and researcher Kim West, this book is a defence of art’s autonomy and addresses some of the major arguments against it in recent post-critical writing…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915609618 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1915609615 |
| Author: | Kim West |
| Publisher: | Sternberg Press |
| Imprint: | Sternberg Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 82g |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 121mm x 6mm |
| Series: | Sternberg Press / The Contemporary Condition |
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About The Author
Kim West
Kim West is a critic, researcher, and editor, based in Stockholm. His research focuses on the contemporary development of critical aesthetic thought, the cultural history of popular avantgardes, and the institutional and technological transformations of art’s forms of mediation. He is currently a researcher at the department of Aesthetics at Södertörn University, where he directs the research project Autonomy, Culture, Action - On Culture’s Spheres of Political Action in the Neoliberal Welfare State (2021-24). He is a founding member of the independent research group Agentur and together with Gustav Strandberg a founding editor of the publishing house 1|21 Press.
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