Description: Postmodernism, Postsocialism and Beyond [Hardcover] Ale� Erjavec Product Overview The book focuses on three interrelated issues: the relationship between modernism and postmodernism; visuality and visual culture; and the relation between the East (former European socialist countries) and the West as regards aesthetics, globalization, culture, and the mechanisms of the presentation and representation of contemporary visual art. In the first part the author reflects upon some of the less noticed issues of modernism and its dominant theoretical narratives regarding art: its privileging of truth and its obfuscation of some segments of European art. One of his central tenets is that recent postsocialist politicized postmodern visual art contradicts Peter Bürger's canonical theory about the avant-garde art of the previous century. The art and culture discussed throughout this volume predominantly concern the visual. For this reason, in the second part visual culture and its uneasy relationship with art and art history are an object of reflection, a topic which is then complemented with that of the embodied eye in the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty. Photography, its relation to truth, and the problematic expectation that an ontology of photography is possible or necessary is the theme of the closing chapter of this part of the book. In the third part the author offers a global view on philosophy of art, visual culture, and the institutions that disseminate them. Read more Details Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing; Illustrated edition (June 30, 2008) Language : English Hardcover : 199 pages ISBN-10 : 1847185770 ISBN-13 : 78 Item Weight : 1.7 pounds Dimensions : 5.91 x 0.59 x 8.27 inches Best Sellers Rank: #9,860,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #22,794 in European Politics Books #48,042 in Art History (Books) #22,794 in European Politics Books #48,042 in Art History (Books) Stock Photos Please Note: All of our book listings use stock photos unless otherwise stated. Please read our descriptions for accurate conditions and editions, don't use the photos! Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.
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ISBN: 1847185770
ISBN10: 1847185770
ISBN13: 9781847185778
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Brand: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
GTIN: 09781847185778
Number of Pages: 199 Pages
Publication Name: Postmodernism, Postsocialism and Beyond
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
Subject: Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Criticism & Theory, General, History & Surveys / Modern, European, History / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 27.3 Oz
Subject Area: Art, Political Science, Philosophy
Author: Aleš Erjavec
Format: Hardcover
