Sven Lutticken - Cultural Revolution: Aesthetic Practice After Autonomy (Sternberg Press) - Softcover

Sven Lutticken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3956791940 ISBN 13: 9783956791949

Publisher: Sternberg Press, 2017

Synopsis

In this collection of essays, art historian and critic Sven Lutticken focuses on aesthetic practice in a rapidly expanding cultural sphere. He analyzes its transformation by the capitalist cultural revolution, whose reshaping of art's autonomy has wrought a field of afters and posts. In a present moment teeming with erosions, where even history and the human are called into question 'Cultural Revolution: Aesthetic Practice after Autonomy' reconsiders these changing values, for relegating such notions safely to the past betrays their possibilities for potential today. Lutticken discusses practices that range from Black Mask to Subversive Aktion, from Krautonomy to Occupy, from the Wet Dream Film Festival in the early 1970s to Jonas Staal's recently established New World Academy. Within these pages Scarlett Johansson meets Paul Chan, Walid Raad, and Hito Steyerl, and Dr. Zira from Planet of the Apes mingles with the likes of Paul Lafargue and Alexandre Kojeve.

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About the Author

Critique d'art et historien, professeur à la VU University d'Amsterdam, Sven Lütticken contribue régulièrement à des catalogues et à des revues telles que Artforum, New Left Review, Afterimage et Texte zur Kunst.
Il est l'auteur de Secret Publicity: Essays on Contemporary Art (NAi publishers, Rotterdam, 2006) et commissaire des expositions Life, Once More: Forms of Reenactment in Contemporary Art (Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2005) et The Art of Iconoclasm (BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2009).

Edition details

• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3956791940
• ISBN 13: 9783956791949
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184