After the Great Refusal
Essays on Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Difficulties
Published on 28. September 2018
160 pages
978-1-78535-759-6 (ISBN)
Description
A Western Marxist reading of contemporary art, focusing on the question of the continued presence (or absence) of the avant-garde's transgressive impulse.
Taking art's ability to contribute to radical social transformation as its point of departure, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen's new title from Zero Books analyses the relationship between the current neoliberal hegemony and contemporary art, including relational aesthetics and interventionist art, new institutionalism and post-modern architecture.
Taking art's ability to contribute to radical social transformation as its point of departure, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen's new title from Zero Books analyses the relationship between the current neoliberal hegemony and contemporary art, including relational aesthetics and interventionist art, new institutionalism and post-modern architecture.
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...a trenchant critique of neoliberal domination of contemporary art. -- Gene Ray, Author of Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical TheoryMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
File size
1,93 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78535-759-6 (9781785357596)
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Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen is an art historian and cultural critic who has published in English and in Danish. He co-produced the exhibition 'This World We Must Leave' in collaboration with Jakob Jakobsen at the Kunsthall Oslo art space. Mikkel is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and is co-editor of the journals K&K and Mr Antipyrine.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Against the Established Taste
- Chapter 1: The Double Nature of Contemporary Art
- Chapter 2: The Self-Murder of the Avant-Garde
- Chapter 3: After Credit, Winter: "The Progressive Art Institution" and the Crisis
- Chapter 4: The Long March Through the Institutions
- Chapter 5: Globalization, Architecture and Containers
- Chapter 6: Imagining a Future
- Notes
