Practical aesthetics : events, affect and art after 9/11 /
Practical Aesthetics" brings a pursuit, long seen as rarefied and indulgent, out of the ivory tower and down to Ground Zero. Theoretically ambitious, fiercely original, it is a radical new account of art's rootedness in the social world and of the value of aesthetics to contemporary societ...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris ;
2012.
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| Series: | Radical aesthetics radical art series.
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| Summary: | Practical Aesthetics" brings a pursuit, long seen as rarefied and indulgent, out of the ivory tower and down to Ground Zero. Theoretically ambitious, fiercely original, it is a radical new account of art's rootedness in the social world and of the value of aesthetics to contemporary society. Beginning with the cultural watershed of 9/11, internationally-renowned scholar Jill Bennett explores artistic developments in relation to current events to argue that understanding aesthetics is as vital to social and political theory as it is to the arts. Taking as its starting-point a definition of art as the critical, self-conscious manipulation of media, Bennett examines a wide range of events from the "War on Terror" to the football World Cup to elucidate how aesthetic perception works in a social field, a process that begins with the rich emotional content of the visual imagery with which we are constantly bombarded. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 234 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781780761442 9781780761459 (pbk.) 1780761457 (pbk.) 1780761449 |