Art and autonomy

What does it mean to speak of artistic autonomy at a time when art is fully commercialised and aesthetics has become the guiding principle of economic production and policymaking? This book by Sebastian Olma takes a fresh look at this question by summoning three heroes of the aesthetic revolution to confront the challenges faced by artistic practice today. Turning Kant into a campaigner for the Anthropocene, Schiller into a creative entrepreneur, and Schelling into a political activist, Olma lays the groundwork for a critique that identifies ?the contemporary? itself as contemporary art?s greatest challenge in the struggle to reinvent its autonomy and regain its relevance to society.

Year

2018

Language

English

Publisher

V2_Publishing

Editions

1

Pages

108

ISBN

9789080179394

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