Art and autonomy
Subtitle: past, present, future
By: Sebastian Olma
Publisher: V2_Publishing
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Rotterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9789080179394
Subjects: Aesthetics; Art; Philosophy; Autonomy (Psychology) in art
Description: What does it mean to speak of artistic autonomy at a time when art is fully commercialised and aesthetics has become the guiding principle of economic production and policymaking? This book by Sebastian Olma takes a fresh look at this question by summoning three heroes of the aesthetic revolution to confront the challenges faced by artistic practice today. Turning Kant into a campaigner for the Anthropocene, Schiller into a creative entrepreneur, and Schelling into a political activist, Olma lays the groundwork for a critique that identifies ?the contemporary? itself as contemporary art?s greatest challenge in the struggle to reinvent its autonomy and regain its relevance to society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.