What is the antithesis of art?
'Art Boycott Art' applies the poststructuralist ethos of revolution to the nexus of art and radicalism.
'Art Boycott Art to Make Art Better' is both cheerful and incisive, encouraging a new generation of artists and philosophers to reject the stale formula of the marketplace and authority in favour of radical-new-modes of interaction. Radical art proposes an essential, modern view of political transformation, one that goes beyond old definitions of insurgency and resistance. Destruction and reconstruction, in history, spilt for the art and revolutionary machinery to remain asunder.
From the 1871 Paris Commune to the tumultuous anti-globalization riots in Genoa in 2001, Gerald Raunig, an Austrian philosopher and art theorist, has written an alternative art history of the 'long twentieth century.' Art and Revolution take on the history of revolutionary transgressions and hopefully plots an emerging from its tales of terrible failure and unmistakable disaster, ranging from the Situationists and Sergei Eisenstein to Viennese Actionism and the PublixTheatreCaravan. Raunig expands the poststructuralist theory of revolution to the explosive intersection of art and activism by elegantly involving Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the 'machine.'
