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Aesthetic Resistance and Dis-Interest: Things Which Will Not Allow Themselves to Be Said

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The collusion of galleries, collectors, and curators has equated popularity with quality. The problem then is to recuperate something of the lost radical conscience of art and culture. Art is a recreation of our own psychic formation as well as being shaped by its ‘otherness’ and by history. All stories are crime stories, all stories are about exile, and all stories are about homesickness. And all art contains a narrative. Radical and working-class voices are vetted and erased, replaced with corporate-friendly kitsch. The colonizing of consciousness has rendered the imagination of the west atrophied and almost inert. To retain something of that utopian promise that is foundational in culture is increasingly difficult. The world is being dis-enchanted. The Utopian promise is not being kept.

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Aesthetic Resistance and Dis-Interest: Things Which Will Not Allow Themselves to Be Said, John Steppling

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Título
Aesthetic Resistance and Dis-Interest: Things Which Will Not Allow Themselves to Be Said
Idioma
Inglés
Editorial
Mimesis
Publicado en
2016
Formato
Tapa blanda
Páginas
112
ISBN13
9788869770241
Serie
Calificación
4 de 5
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The collusion of galleries, collectors, and curators has equated popularity with quality. The problem then is to recuperate something of the lost radical conscience of art and culture. Art is a recreation of our own psychic formation as well as being shaped by its ‘otherness’ and by history. All stories are crime stories, all stories are about exile, and all stories are about homesickness. And all art contains a narrative. Radical and working-class voices are vetted and erased, replaced with corporate-friendly kitsch. The colonizing of consciousness has rendered the imagination of the west atrophied and almost inert. To retain something of that utopian promise that is foundational in culture is increasingly difficult. The world is being dis-enchanted. The Utopian promise is not being kept.