{"product_id":"art-power-boris-groys-9780262518680","title":"Art Power","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of art's complex relationship to power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In\u003ci\u003e Art Power\u003c\/i\u003e, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideological function. Art, Groys writes, is produced and brought before the public in two ways--as a commodity and as a tool of political propaganda. In the contemporary art scene, very little attention is paid to the latter function.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing for the inclusion of politically motivated art in contemporary art discourse, Groys considers art produced under totalitarianism, Socialism, and post-Communism. He also considers today's mainstream Western art--which he finds behaving more and more according the norms of ideological propaganda: produced and exhibited for the masses at international exhibitions, biennials, and festivals. Contemporary art, Groys argues, demonstrates its power by appropriating the iconoclastic gestures directed against itself--by positioning itself simultaneously as an image and as a critique of the image. In \u003ci\u003eArt Power\u003c\/i\u003e, Groys examines this fundamental appropriation that produces the paradoxical object of the modern artwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Boris Groys\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262518686\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262518680\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/08\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.63h x 5.81w x 0.49d","brand":"Boris Groys","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946373087487,"sku":"9780262518680","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_19e1cf13-fd57-405c-9ff5-47d20f8a5c09.jpg?v=1681512777","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/art-power-boris-groys-9780262518680","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}