The future of the image / Jacques Ranciere ; translated by Gregory Elliott.
By: Ranciere, Jacques
Contributor(s): Elliott, Gregory [translator]Language: English Original language: French Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2009Description: 147 p. ; 20 cm001: 26596ISBN: 1844672972 (paperback); 9781844672974 (paperback)Uniform titles: Destin des images. English Subject(s): Aesthetics, ModernDDC classification: 709.0401
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In The Future of the Image , Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, filmmakers such as Godard and Bresson, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Rancière shows that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from religious tendencies.
He argues that there is a stark political choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy, or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Rancière there is never a pure art: the aesthetic revolution must always embrace egalitarian ideals.
Originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the French.
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