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OverviewNine letters on art, written to friends from exile in France in the 1980s. Starting from earlier materialist approaches to art, Negri relates artistic production to the structures of social production characteristic of each historical era. This enables him to define the nature of both material and artistic production in the era of post-modernity and post-Fordism - the era Negri characterizes as that of immaterial labour. Negri then seeks to define artistic beauty in this new era, and this he does in terms of concepts that have become fundamental to his thinking - singularity, multitude, abstraction, collective work, event, the biopolitical, the common. Art is living labour, and therefore invention of singularity, of singular figures and objects. But this expressive act only achieves beauty when the signs and language through which it expresses itself turn themselves into community, when they are contained within a common project. The beautiful is not the act of imagining, but an imagination that has become action. Art, in this sense, is multitude. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Antonio Negri (University of Padua)Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Polity Press Dimensions: Width: 13.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.70cm Weight: 0.236kg ISBN: 9780745648996ISBN 10: 0745648991 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 04 March 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAntonio Negri, Formerly Professor of State Theory, Padua University Translated by Ed Emery Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |