Art, Agency and the Continued Assault on Authorship

ISBN-13: 9780367643638 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 232 str.

Simon Blond

Opis

This book presents a counter-history to the relentless critique of the humanist subject and authorial agency that has taken place over the last fifty years.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Simon Blond is Lecturer in the History and Theory of Art at Curtin University, Perth, Australia.