214 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book presents a counter-history to the relentless critique of the humanist subject and authorial agency that has taken place over the past fifty years.
It is both an interrogation of that critique and the tracing of an alternative narrative from Romanticism to the twenty-first century which celebrates the agency of the artist as a powerful contribution to the wellbeing of the community. It... Read more
Introduction 1. The Emergence of the Romantic Subject 2. Art and Subjectivity in Post-Kantian Germany 3. The Battle for Modernism 4. The Critique of Autonomy and the Disavowal of Agency 5. Appropriation and the Critique of Originality 6. Social Art Practices Part One: Production 7. Social Art Practices Part Two: The Art Object and the Ideology of Reception Conclusion
Biography
Simon Blond is Lecturer in the History and Theory of Art at Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
