Art and autonomy : a critical reader Cover Image

Book

Art and autonomy : a critical reader / edited by Sven Lütticken.

Summary:

"The idea of the autonomy of the art object seems to have disappeared into the annals of modernism. Today our primary concern is to show how art and its institutions are socially determined, that art no longer operates in a separate sphere of its own. Sven Lütticken’s ambitious study seeks to test such assumptions, arguing that the concept of autonomy retains its conceptual and political purchase. Bringing together a wide range of thinkers (from Theodor W. Adorno to Aimé Césaire, Friedrich Schiller to Andrea Fraser, Peter Bürger to Elizabeth Povinelli) and covering a broad set of themes (from German Idealism to institutional history and media theory), this critical reader foregrounds autonomy as something dynamic, offering an essential introduction to the field while leading the debates in fresh directions."-- vendor website, viewed March 21, 2023.

Record details

ISBN: 3960989334
ISBN: 9783960989332
Physical Description: 424 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Publisher: London : Afterall Books, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

A user's manual -- Introduction: Autonomy and art -- Part one: Art and life. Critique of the power of judgment / Immanuel Kant -- Letters on the aesthetic education of manking / Friedrich Schiller -- The Romantic school / Heinrich Heiner -- Image of the people / T.J. Clark -- 'The Realist manifesto' / Gustave Courbet -- Letter to Les Temps Nouveaux / Lucien Pissarro -- 'Manifesto: Towards a free revolutionary art' / André Breton and Diego Rivera [and Leon Trotsky] -- 'The minimum life / Lettrist International -- 'The negation of the autonomy of art by the avant-garde' / Peter Bürger -- 'The aesthetic revolution and its outcomes' / Jacques Rancière -- Part two: Useful art. 'Lecture IV: The relation of art to use' / John Ruskin -- 'The dual character of the labour embodied in commodities' / Karl Marx -- 'The lesser arts' / William Morris -- Preface to The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde -- 'Who owns the artists' / Upton Sinclair -- 'THE END' / Nul Group -- 'Art strike 1977-1980' / Gustav Metzger -- 'PROJECT FOR ART LIQUIDATION' / Guillaume Bijl -- 'The mirror of production' / Jean Baudrillard -- 'Marxism and the system of political economy' / Jean Baudrillard -- 'Social autonomy and the use-value of art' / John Byrne -- Part three: From object to frame. 'The picture frame' / Georg Simmel -- 'Critical limits' / Daniel Buren -- 'Hans Haacke and the cultural logic of Postmodernism' / Fredric Jameson -- 'Autonomy and its contradictions' / Andrea Fraser -- Part four: Social autonomy and the labour of art. 'The absolute artwork meets the absolute commodity' / Stewart Martin -- 'Theorem 4. Autonomy' / Peter Osborne -- The project of autonomy' / Pier Vittorio Aureli -- 'What is the meaning of autonomy today?' / Franco 'Bifo' Berardi -- Interview with Imma Harms / Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann -- 'Immaterial labor' / Maurizio Lazzarato -- 'The sadness of post-workerism' / David Graeber -- 'Manifesto for maintenance art 1969!' / Mierle Laderman Ukeles -- '(Not) More autonomy' / Kerstin Stakemeier -- Plates -- Part five: Autonomedia. 'Avant-garde and kitsch' / Clement Greenberg -- 'Absolute film' / Menno ter Braak -- Composing for the films / Theodor W. Adorno and Hanns Eisler -- 'The author as producer' / Walter Benjamin -- 'Constituents of a theory of the media' / Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- 'The Lumpen-headache' / Peter Benchley [Mel Ramsden] -- 'Popular free radio' / Félix Guattari -- 'The ABC of tactical media' / David Garcia and Geert Lovink -- 'Artistic autonomy and the communication society' / Brian Holmes -- 'A cyborg manifesto' / Donna J. Haraway -- 'Dear Artfukts, Look at my curve' / Natasch Sadr Haghighian -- Part six: Another autonomy is possible. Discourse on colonialism / Aimé Césaire -- 'The ends of humans' / Elizabeth Povinelli -- 'African modes of self-writing' / Achille Mbembe -- The creation of the world or globalization / Jean-Luc Nancy -- 'The autonomy archipelago' / Stephen Wright -- 'A Zapatista position paper on photography' / Subcomandante Marcos -- 'Living without approval' interview with Jonas Staal / Dilar Dirik -- 'The city is sinking' / H.K. revisited by pirate comrades -- Coda: Homelessness. 'Duty-free art' / Hito Steyerl.