Practical Aesthetics Events Affect And Art After 911
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company; I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781780761459
Description: "Practical Aesthetics brings a pursuit, long seen as rarefied and indulgent, out of the ivory tower and down to Ground Zero. Theoretically ambitious, fiercely original, it is a radical new account of art's rootedness in the social world and of the value of aesthetics to contemporary society. Beginning with the cultural watershed of 9/11, internationally-renowned scholar Jill Bennett explores artistic developments in relation to current events to argue that understanding aesthetics is as vital to social and political theory as it is to the arts. Taking as its starting-point a definition of art as the critical, self-conscious manipulation of media, Bennett examines a wide range of events from the 'War on Terror' to the football World Cup to elucidate how aesthetic perception works in a social field, a process that begins with the rich emotional content of the visual imagery with which we are constantly bombarded."--P. [4] of cover.