The Sovereign Self : Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde /

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"The Sovereign Self explores the complex history of artistic subjectivity and the principle of autonomy that it exemplifies. Grant H. Kester argues that the modern artistic self is the basis for a whole series of subsequent institutional and discursive enclosures which are understood to be uniq...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kester, Grant H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Subjectivity in art.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Autonomy (Psychology) in art.
Art > Philosophy.
Art, Modern > Political aspects.
Art criticism.
Art and society.
ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)
ART / Criticism & Theory.
Art and society > History > 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Freedom and sovereignty
  • Communism and the aesthetic state
  • From vanguard to avant-garde
  • Activism and autonomy in the 1960s
  • The rise of the neo-avant-garde
  • The Hirschhorn monument : autonomy as brand and alibi
  • Conclusion: Aesthetics beyond semblance.

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