The Aesthetic Exception: Essays on Art, Theatre, and Politics

The aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics. It challenges critical trends that discount...
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Author: Tony Fisher
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Language: English
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The Aesthetic Exception: Essays on Art, Theatre, and Politics by Fisher, Tony

The Aesthetic Exception: Essays on Art, Theatre, and Politics

€295,90

The Aesthetic Exception: Essays on Art, Theatre, and Politics

€295,90
Author: Tony Fisher
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics. It challenges critical trends that discount the role of aesthetic autonomy, to impulsively reassert art as an effective form of social engagement. But it equally challenges those on the flipside of the efficacy debate, who insist that art's politics is limited to a recondite space of 'autonomous resistance'. The book shows how each side of the efficacy debate overlooks art's exceptional status and its social mediations. Mobilising philosophy and cultural theory, and employing examples from visual art, performance, and theatre, it proposes four alternative tests to 'effect' to offer a nuanced account of art's political character. Those tests examine how art relates to politics as a practice that articulates its historical conjuncture, and how it prefigures the 'new' through simulations capable of activating the political life of the spectator.

Author: Tony Fisher
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 06/13/2023
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781526170163

About the Author
Tony Fisher is Reader in Theatre and Philosophy at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.

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