The Emancipated Spectator (THE ESSENTIAL RANCIERE) - Softcover

Jacques Rancière

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788739647 ISBN 13: 9781788739641

Publisher: Verso, 2021

Synopsis

The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance. In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Rancière takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. First asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, he goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad affirmation of its omnipotence?

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About the Author

Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People, and The Emancipated Spectator.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788739647
• ISBN 13: 9781788739641
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144