Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation
Publisher: Minor Compositions/Autonomedia
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Wivenhoe/New York/Port Watson
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781570272486
Table of contents: title: ARTPOLITIK; title: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation; title: Acknowledgements; title: Chapter 1.  Introduction:  The Nature of Art; title: Introduction; title: Reasons for Writing This Book; title: From A Written to a Visual Culture; title: Classical Aesthetics: The Case for Meaning; title: Art, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Modern Era; title: Chapter 2.  Modernism: Art as Rebellion; title: Introduction; title: Aesthetic Elements of Modernism; title: Criticism of Modernism; title: •	Aesthetic value and the idea of quality; title: •	Technology and the mechanization of art; title: •	Art as meaning and purpose; title: •	The critique from the left: the alienation of art from community; title: Modernism, Anarchism, and Aesthetics in the United States; title: •	Early twentieth century anarchist aesthetics; title: •	Modernism and individualism; title: •	David Weir: Modernism as anarchism; title: The Legacy of Modernism; title: Chapter 3.  Dada, Surrealism, and the Dream of Revolution; title: Introduction; title: The Political Aesthetic of Surrealism; title: •	The politics of the mind; title: •	Surrealism and political activism; title: •	Surrealist art as a new politics; title: •	Surrealism and the aesthetics of consumer capitalism; title: •	American Surrealism; title: Criticism of Dada and Surrealism; title: The Legacy of Dada and Surrealism; title: Chapter 4.  Socialist Realism: Real Lives, Real People, Real Politics; title: Introduction; title: Repression of Socialist Realism in the United States; title: Aesthetics of Socialist Realism; title: •	Stylistic elements of Socialist Realism; title: •	The role of the artist; title: Criticism of Socialist Realism; title: •	The mutual exclusivity of politics and art; title: •	Socialist Realism as a threat to artistic freedom; title: •	Socialist Realism and capitalist advertising aesthetics; title: The Legacy of Socialist Realism; title: Chapter 5.  The Situationist International: Art as Direct Action; title: Introduction; title: Aesthetic Elements of the Situationist International Perspective; title: •	The spectacle; title: •	Détournement; title: •	Dérive; title: •	The situation; title: Criticism of the Situationist International; title: •	A collective or individual analysis?; title: •	Recuperation by capitalism; title: •	Lack of commitment to a revolutionary agenda; title: •	The SI:  art and the artist; title: •	The problem of individualism; title: •	Consumerism and unbridled consumption; title: •	Sustainability of action; title: The Legacy of the Situationist International; title: Chapter 6.  The Postmodern Digression: Warmed Over Modernist Aesthetics; title: Introduction: The Nature of Postmodernism; title: Aesthetics in the Postmodern Era; title: Postmodern Criticism of Capitalist Aesthetics; title: •	The loss of meaning and purpose; title: •	The individual artist and artistic freedom; title: •	The consumer culture: the postmodern dilemma; title: •	The culture industry and capitalist aesthetics: Adorno on postmodernism; title: The Legacy of Postmodernism; title: Chapter 7.  Postmodern Anarchism, Politics, and Aesthetics; title: Introduction; title: Postmodern Anarchism: A Framework for Change?; title: •	Postmodern anarchist politics; title: •	Criticism of postmodern anarchism; title: Late Twentieth Century Anarchist Aesthetics; title: •	The theory; title: •	The practice; title: The Challenges of Postmodern Anarchist Aesthetics; title: Chapter 8.  Toward a Social Anarchist Aesthetic in an Age of Fragmentation; title: Introduction; title: Elements of a Social Anarchist Aesthetic; title: •	Meaning; title: •	The social nature of political art: context and community; title: •	Coherence; title: •	The centrality of narrative; title: The Social Anarchist Artist and the Avant-garde; title: Confronting Power: The Role of Social Anarchist Aesthetic; title: •	Challenging capitalism; title: •	Challenging advertising art; title: Nourishing the Imaginative:  A Bridge to the Possible; title: Art as Action: A “Dynamic Realism”; title: Conclusion: Art and Freedom; title: End Notes; title: Bibliography