The emancipated spectator / Jacques Ranciere.

By:

Rancière, Jacques

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: London : Verso, c2009.Description: 134 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:

9781844673438 (hbk.)
184467343X (hbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

111.85 RAN

Contents:

1. The Emancipated Spectator -- 2. The Misadventures of Critical Thought -- 3. Aesthetic Separation, Aesthetic Community -- 4. The Intolerable Image -- 5. The Pensive Image.

Summary: In this title, the foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of seeing. The role of the viewer in art and film theory revolves around a theatrical concept of the spectacle. The masses subjected to the society of spectacle have traditionally been seen as aesthetically and politically passive - in response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a performance. In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Ranciere takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. Beginning by asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, he goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, instead, a melancholic affirmation of their omnipotence?

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	111.85 RAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100417964

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This is regarded as the follow up to \'The Future of the Image\'.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. The Emancipated Spectator -- 2. The Misadventures of Critical Thought -- 3. Aesthetic Separation, Aesthetic Community -- 4. The Intolerable Image -- 5. The Pensive Image.

In this title, the foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of seeing. The role of the viewer in art and film theory revolves around a theatrical concept of the spectacle. The masses subjected to the society of spectacle have traditionally been seen as aesthetically and politically passive - in response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a performance. In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Ranciere takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. Beginning by asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, he goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, instead, a melancholic affirmation of their omnipotence?

Translated from the French.

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