Ethics of Contemporary Art: In the Shadow of Transgression by Reeves-Evison, Theo

Ethics of Contemporary Art: In the Shadow of Transgression (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501388095)

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Ethics of Contemporary Art: In the Shadow of Transgression by Reeves-Evison, Theo

Ethics of Contemporary Art: In the Shadow of Transgression

$40.95
Ethics of Contemporary Art: In the Shadow of Transgression by Reeves-Evison, Theo

Ethics of Contemporary Art: In the Shadow of Transgression

$40.95
Format: Paperback
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What happens when the shock of artistic transgression wears off, when scandal dissipates, when outrage becomes a tired routine? In this original new book, Theo Reeves-Evison argues that transgressive art no longer succeeds on its own terms in societies where language, prohibition and morality have become increasingly malleable. This compels us to rethink the relationship between contemporary art and ethics, and focus our attention on the potential of artworks to propose new values rather than simply challenge pre-existing moral codes.

Assembling a novel theoretical framework from the writings of F駘ix Guattari, Jacques Lacan and others, Ethics of Contemporary Artnarrates a journey away from transgression towards a new critical paradigm for the relationship between ethics and aesthetics that places questions of subjectivity centre stage. Along the way artworks by Kader Attia, Artur Zmijewski, Dora Garcia and others serve as springboards launching discussions of the varied pathways along which a renewed ethics of contemporary art might develop.

Author: Theo Reeves-Evison
ISBN-10: 1501388096
ISBN-13: 9781501388095
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2022
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d
By Theo Reeves-Evison
By Theo Reeves-Evison
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Theo Reeves-Evison is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Birmingham School of Art, UK. Prior to taking up a Leverhulme fellowship he worked as a Senior Lecturer in Theoretical and Contextual Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths College and an MA in Critical Theory from the University of Nottingham. He is the editor, together with Jon K. Shaw of Fiction as Method, and has published recent articles in journals such as Parallax, New Formations and Third Text.

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