The Emancipated Spectator
London: Verso, 2009. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine / Fine. Item #008537
Full black paper boards. 134 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine condition. In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Jacques Ranciere takes a radically different approach to the emancipation of the audience of art and film from passive to active consumers. First asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, he goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad confirmation of its omnipotence?
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