Mon premier blog

Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideological function. Art, Groys writes, is produced and brought before the public in two ways -- as a commodity and as a tool of political propaganda. In the contemporary art scene, very little attention is paid to the latter function. Arguing for the inclusion of politically motivated art in contemporary art discourse, Groys considers art produced under totalitarianism, Socialism, and post-Communism. He also considers today's mainstream Western art -- which he finds behaving more and more according the norms of ideological propaganda: produced and exhibited for the masses at international exhibitions, biennials, and festivals. Contemporary art, Groys argues, demonstrates its power by appropriating the iconoclastic gestures directed against itself -- by positioning itself simultaneously as an image and as a critique of the image. In Art Power, Groys examines this fundamental appropriation that produces the paradoxical object of the modern artwork.

____________________________
Author: Boris Groys
Number of Pages: 200 pages
Published Date: 05 Mar 2013
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Publication Country: Cambridge, Mass., United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780262518680
Download Link: Click Here
____________________________

Tags:

fb2, zip, Read online, paperback, mobi, iPhone, kindle, epub download, rardownload book, fb2, Boris Groys download ebook,iPad, facebook, download pdf, pocket, for PC, ebook pdf, ebook,download epub, download torrent, free ebook, free pdf, for mac, iOS, download ebook,Art Power rar, download torrent Art Power by Boris Groys kindle,book review,

T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone