The Future of the Image
Published on 2. February 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
147 pages
978-1-84467-297-4 (ISBN)
Description
In The Future of the Image, Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, filmmakers such as Godard and Bresson, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Ranciere shows that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from religious tendencies.
He argues that there is a stark political choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy, or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Ranciere there is never a pure art: the aesthetic revolution must always embrace egalitarian ideals.
He argues that there is a stark political choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy, or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Ranciere there is never a pure art: the aesthetic revolution must always embrace egalitarian ideals.
Reviews / Votes
Like all of Jacques Ranciere's texts, The Future of the Image is vertiginously precise. * Les Cahiers du Cinema * Ranciere's writings offer one of the few conceptualizations of how we are to continue to resist. -- Slavoj Zizek What we see here is Ranciere developing a unique voice as a political theorist. * Bookforum * French philosopher Jacques Ranciere is a refreshing read for anyone concerned with what art has to do with politics and society. * Art Review * It's clear that Jacques Ranciere is relighting the flame that was extinguished for many-that is why he serves as such a signal reference today. -- Thomas Hirschhorn A series of gratifyingly knotty and close discussions of nineteenth and twentieth century literature, film and painting. * Guardian *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
179 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84467-297-4 (9781844672974)
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