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OverviewAcross 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 art’s 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 art’s contribution to emancipatory discourse and practice. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John RobertsPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 301 Weight: 1.022kg ISBN: 9789004686861ISBN 10: 900468686 Pages: 520 Publication Date: 08 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews“In this collection of brilliant, exciting, and often surprising essays on value, technique, and praxis, John Roberts proves that Marxist art criticism is alive and kicking in our contemporary moment. This writing is where I go when my spirits are down. For there is something uniquely invigorating and even joyful about its clarity, originality, and conceptual precision.” — Sianne Ngai, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, University of Chicago “A tour-de-force organised across challenging yet essential concepts for art history, philosophy, and emancipation as a trans-generational project: 'value', 'technique', 'praxis', 'image', 'history'. Nothing less was expected from one of Europe’s most incisive art theorists thinking through Marxism. From photography to unclassifiable artmaking to the alienation of capitalist modernity, the themes and threads of John Roberts’ essays help bring into focus an era of unreasonable hope: ours.” — Angela Dimitrakaki, University of Edinburgh Author InformationJohn Roberts, PhD (University of Wolverhampton, 2005), is Professor of Art & Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton and author of numerous books including The Intangibilities of Form (Verso, 2006), The Necessity of Errors (Verso, 2011), Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde (Verso, 2015), and Capitalism and the Limits of Desire (Bloomsbury 2022). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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