Defending Complexity: Art, Politics and the New World OrderOne of the most damning charges that can be leveled against artists, curators and critics these days is that they are "reducing art to politics." The idea has taken hold that politics is like a virus, sucking all the aesthetic sophistication, beauty and formal intelligence out of an art work, and leaving behind only an empty husk of tired propaganda. This book looks at art and politics from a variety of standpoints, among them, the failures and successes of art committed to social change, the intersections between art and religion, globalism and economics, the dangers posed by paranoia and censorship to our vision of free expression and the new urgency of these issues in a post 9/11 world. |
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ART AND THE PUBLIC | 29 |
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| Title | Defending Complexity: Art, Politics and the New World Order |
| Author | Eleanor Heartney |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Hard Press Editions, 2006 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jan 26, 2010 |
| ISBN | 1889097667, 9781889097664 |
| Length | 233 pages |
| Subjects | › Art / Art & Politics Art / General |
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