My Cart

loader
Loading...

Art and Autonomy

A Critical Reader


  • Walther & Franz Koenig Verlag
  • by Ed: Sven Lütticken
Bringing together a wide range of thinkers - from Theodor W. Adorno to Aimé Césaire, Friedrich Schiller to Andrea Fraser, Peter Bürger to Elizabeth Povinelli - and covering a broad set of themes - from German Idealism to institutional history, media theory to political sovereignty - this critical reader foregrounds autonomy as something dynamic and shifting, something to be critically struggled and fought over lest it be relinquished.

ISBN 9783960989332 | EN | PB
€29,80
available
Quantity
More Information
Publisher Walther & Franz Koenig Verlag
ISBN 9783960989332
Author(s) Ed: Sven Lütticken
Publication date November 2022
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 248 x 191 mm
Illustrations 70 col.ill.
Pages 432
Language(s) English ed.
Description

In recent years, the theory of art’s autonomy appears to have been confined to the annals of Modernism. If contemporary history, political interventions and critiques of Eurocentrism have shown us anything, it is that art and its institutions are thoroughly socially determined, that art no longer operates in a separate or protects sphere of its own. Researched and authored by Sven Lütticken, this ambitious study seeks to test such assumptions, arguing that autonomy, far from a romantic naiveté, retains its conceptual and political purchase. Bringing together a wide range of thinkers – from Theodor W. Adorno to Aimé Césaire, Friedrich Schiller to Andrea Fraser, Peter Bürger to Elizabeth Povinelli – and covering a broad set of themes – from German Idealism to institutional history, media theory to political sovereignty – this critical reader foregrounds autonomy as something dynamic and shifting, something to be critically struggled and fought over lest it be relinquished. Art and Autonomy offers an essential theoretical introduction to the field while leading the debates in new directions.