Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural PoliticsA Village Voice Best Book, a "lucid and provocative work...that allows us to glimpse the stirrings and upheavals in the hothouse of modern art". Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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Page 36
... strategy of hyperbole in which the old myths of the artist are taken up so excessively as to be exposed as our own bad fictions , our own re- pressive investments . But this case can only be made in a few in- stances ( for example ...
... strategy of hyperbole in which the old myths of the artist are taken up so excessively as to be exposed as our own bad fictions , our own re- pressive investments . But this case can only be made in a few in- stances ( for example ...
Page 148
... strategy of the avant garde , it may be that its æsthetic negations occasionally prompted social praxis - in art such as Brecht's where " ideological confusion " is turned into political con- testation – but these exceptions largely ...
... strategy of the avant garde , it may be that its æsthetic negations occasionally prompted social praxis - in art such as Brecht's where " ideological confusion " is turned into political con- testation – but these exceptions largely ...
Page 152
... strategy of transgression must pass , bound to its moment , and a new critical strategy of resistance from within come to the fore . Such a model also allows us to begin to periodize strategies of transgression and resistance in terms ...
... strategy of transgression must pass , bound to its moment , and a new critical strategy of resistance from within come to the fore . Such a model also allows us to begin to periodize strategies of transgression and resistance in terms ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Against Pluralism | 13 |
Between Modernism and the Media | 33 |
Copyright | |
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