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The Future of the Image

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The Future of the Image
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Lauded by major contemporary artists and philosophers, Jacques RanciÃ¨reâ€™s work returns politics to its central place in understanding art.

In The Future of the Image,Jacques RanciÃ¨re develops a fascinating new concept of the image incontemporary art, showing how art and politics have always beenintrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, filmmakers such as Godard and Bresson, andthinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard andGreenberg, RanciÃ¨re shows that contemporary theorists of the image aresuffering from religious tendencies.

He argues that there is a starkpolitical choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy,or create a new reactionary mysticism. For RanciÃ¨re there is never apure art: the aesthetic revolution must always embrace egalitarianideals.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2007-06-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781844671076

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