The Emancipated Spectator
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In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière takes a radically different approach to the common depiction of audiences of art and film as passive and the attempt of artists and thinkers to transform the spectator into an active agent.
The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle they witness into a communal performance.
Rancière takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. 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.
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ISBN 9781844673438
Hardback, 13.5 x 20.2cm, 134 pages
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