Art and Emancipation

English | 2023 | ISBN: 9789004686861 | 542 Pages | PDF | 3.8 MB

Across a powerfully wide-ranging set of themes, theoretical registers and historical examples, John Roberts analyses the key problems that continue to confront art after conceptual art, in the light of arts longstanding relationship to market and institution the commodity and mass culture: namely, artistic labour and technology, modernity and the new, art and negation, identity and subjectivity, agency and audience, form and value. In these terms, the book provides a rigorous and ambitious, examination of the limits and possibilities of arts contribution to emancipatory discourse and practice.