Art power : Boris Groys
Author(s): Groys, Boris
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Art power
- Author(s)
- Groys, Boris
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, 2013
- Collation
- 187, [3] pages
24 cm - 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.
- ISBN
- 9780262518680
- Dewey Class
- 701.03
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I. Logic of Equal Aesthetic Rights -- On the New -- On the Curatorship -- Art in the Age of Biopolitics: From Artwork to Art Documentation -- Iconoclasm as an Artistic Device: Iconoclastic Strategies in Film -- From Image to Image File -- and Back: Art in the Age of Digitalization -- Multiple Authorship -- City in the Age of Touristic Reproduction -- Critical Reflections -- Part II. Art at War -- Hero's 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.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Art and state
Art -- Political aspects - BRN
- 10579
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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Books
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701.03 GRO
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Available
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