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Art power / Boris Groys.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 187 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262072920
  • 9780262072922
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 701.03 22
LOC classification:
  • N72.P6 G76 2008
Contents:
Logic of equal aesthetic rights -- On the new -- On the curatorship -- Art in the age of biopolitics: from artwork to art documentation -- Iconoclasm as artistic device: iconoclastic strategies in film -- From image to image file--and back: art in the age of digitalization -- Multiple authorship -- The city in the age of touristic reproduction -- Critical reflections -- Art at war -- The heroes body: Adolf Hitler's art theory -- Educating the masses: socialist realist art -- Beyond diversity: cultural studies and its post-Communist other -- Privatizations, or artificial paradises of post-Communism -- Europe and its others.
Summary: In 'Art Power' the author examines modern art according to its ideological function. Art, he argues, is produced and brought before the public in two ways - as a commodity and as a tool of political propaganda. In developing his thesis he looks at art produced under totalitarinism, Socialism and post-Communism.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190).

Logic of equal aesthetic rights -- On the new -- On the curatorship -- Art in the age of biopolitics: from artwork to art documentation -- Iconoclasm as artistic device: iconoclastic strategies in film -- From image to image file--and back: art in the age of digitalization -- Multiple authorship -- The city in the age of touristic reproduction -- Critical reflections -- Art at war -- The heroes body: Adolf Hitler's art theory -- Educating the masses: socialist realist art -- Beyond diversity: cultural studies and its post-Communist other -- Privatizations, or artificial paradises of post-Communism -- Europe and its others.

In 'Art Power' the author examines modern art according to its ideological function. Art, he argues, is produced and brought before the public in two ways - as a commodity and as a tool of political propaganda. In developing his thesis he looks at art produced under totalitarinism, Socialism and post-Communism.

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