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035 $a(OCoLC)on1120095285
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020 $a1642592552$qhardcover
020 $a9781642592559$qhardcover
020 $a9781642591316$qpaperback
020 $a1642591319$qpaperback
035 $a(OCoLC)1120095285
050 4 $aN72.P6$bM65 2020
082 04 $a700.103$223
082 04 $a111.85
100 1 $aMolyneux, John,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe dialectics of art /$cJohn Molyneux.
264 1 $aChicago, IL :$bHaymarket Books,$c2020.
300 $axv, 271 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aIn a sweeping survey of art from the dawn of the bourgeois era to the present day, John Molyneux explains what makes artistic production under capitalism unique, moving, and possibly revolutionary. To the question of "What is art?", it is often simply responded that art is whatever is produced by the artist. For John Molyneux, this clearly circular answer is deeply unsatisfying. In a tour de force spanning renaissance Italy and the Dutch Republic to contemporary leading figures, The Dialectics of Art instead approaches its subject matter as a distinct field of creative human labour that emerges alongside and in opposition to the alienation and commodification brought about by capitalism. The pieces and individuals Molyneux examines from Michelangelo's Slaves to Rembrandt's Jewish Bride to the vast drip paintings of Jackson Pollock are presented as embodying the social contradictions of their times, giving art an inherently political relevance. In its relationship of creative and dialectical tension to prevailing social relationships and norms, such art points beyond the existing order of things, hinting at a potential future society not based on alienated labour in which creative production becomes the property and practice of all.
650 0 $aArt$xPolitical aspects.
650 0 $aArt and society.
650 0 $aCapitalism.
650 0 $aDialectic in art.
650 7 $aArt and society$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00815432
650 7 $aArt$xPolitical aspects$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00815309
650 7 $aCapitalism$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00846425
852 00 $bfaxlc$hN72.P6$iM65 2020