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Going Public

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If all things in the world can be considered sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Following his recent books Art Power and The Communist Postscript, in Going Public Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art—which always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.

Language: English

Pages: 168

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Release: November 01, 2010

ISBN: 1934105309

ISBN 13: 9781934105306

Going Public

4.1/5 ( ratings)

If all things in the world can be considered sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Following his recent books Art Power and The Communist Postscript, in Going Public Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art—which always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.

Language: English

Pages: 168

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Release: November 01, 2010

ISBN: 1934105309

ISBN 13: 9781934105306

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