Artmaking in the Age of Global Capitalism: Visual Practices, Philosophy, Politics

by Jan Bryant

Overview

Jan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and filmmakers are using to criticise the social and economic conditions shaping our historical moment. She then assesses how the world is being positively re-imagined through their work today.
Located at the intersection of practice and theory, Bryant argues that an effective contemporary political aesthetics encompasses more than just analysis of a work’s conceptual or aesthetic reality. It should also consider the impact the artwork has at the point of reception, the methods adopted by the artists and the relationships they engender with communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474456944
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	10/16/2019
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jan Bryant is Senior Lecturer in Theory of Art & Design at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of numerous catalogue essays and journal articles and has curated several international exhibitions.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Gift of Being Disgusted

Part I: Still Deep in the Bones of the Bourgeoisie

Introduction

1. Benjamin’s Challenge for the 21st Century

2. A Community of Sense

3. Crisis on the Left

4. ‘Efficient Market Ideology’

Part II: Encounters From The 20th Century

Introduction

5. Encounter One: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Italo Calvino

6. Encounter Two: Lefebvre and Blanchot

7. Encounter Three: Art and the Socialist State

Part III: Political-Aesthetics and Contemporary Artists

Introduction

8. Frances Barrett–A Politics To Come

9. The Intruder (Claire Denis)

10. The Politics of Painting: Cliché, Fashion, Mimesis

11. Na Trioblóidí and Decolonisation (Alex Monteith)

Conclusion

Index

What People are Saying About This

Professor Andrew Benjamin

Jan Bryant has reopened the question of the relationship between politics and art via a thorough investigation of contemporary philosophy and an important number of artistic practices. Moving beyond the sterility of the identification of art with conceptualism by investigating practices that remain attentive to art’s materiality, Bryant has written a book that will be equally important for practioners as well as those involved in the critical evaluation of contemporary art.

Editorial Reviews

Jan Bryant has reopened the question of the relationship between politics and art via a thorough investigation of contemporary philosophy and an important number of artistic practices. Moving beyond the sterility of the identification of art with conceptualism by investigating practices that remain attentive to art’s materiality, Bryant has written a book that will be equally important for practioners as well as those involved in the critical evaluation of contemporary art.

Andrew Benjamin