Political Aesthetics (eBook, ePUB)

Culture, Critique and the Everyday
Redaktion: Virmani, Arundhati

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Political Aesthetics highlights the complex and ambiguous connections of aesthetics with social, cultural and political experiences in contemporary societies. If today aesthetics seems a rather overused term, mixing a variety of historical realities and complex personal states of being, its relevance as a connecting agent between individual, state and society is stronger than ever.

The actual context of political and economic crisis generates new relations between official imposed aesthetics and the resistance and critiques they trigger. Considered beyond the poles of power and protest, the book examines how traditional or innovative artistic practices may acquire unexpected capacities of subversion. It nourishes the current debate around the new political stakes of aesthetics as an inviolable right of ordinary citizens, an essential element of empowerment and agency in a democratic every day.

It will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, political culture and political aesthetics, as well as critical sociology and history. It will also be useful for some broad courses in media studies, cultural studies, and sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317906285
• Artikelnr.: 43828912

Autorenporträt

Arundhati Virmani is an historian at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille. Her works deal with the social and political history of colonial and contemporary India, in particular the forms and mechanisms of social aggregation, symbols and rituals of national sentiment, places and objects of memory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Arundhati Virmani Aesthetics in Political Culture Chapter 1.
Narrating the Nation: Murals and Tapestry in the Indian and South African
Parliaments Shirin Rai and Rachel Johnson Chapter 2. The Aesthetics of
Sacrifice in Indian Political Culture Arundhati Virmani Chapter 3. The
Politics of Aesthetics: Mussolini and Fascist Italy Simonetta Falasca
Zamponi Power of Aesthetical critique Chapter 4. The Aesthetic Politics of
the Techno Movement in France 1990-2010 Jean-Christophe Sevin Chapter 5.
Aesthetics as Critique: A Photographic Inquiry into the Mafia Franco
Zecchin Chapter 6. Beyond the Politics of Representation: Tribal Art in
postcolonial India Rashmi Varma The Everyday as Aesthetics Chapter 7.
Aesthetics of the Suburban Fabric: Marseilles on Foot Hendrik Sturm
Chapter 8. Perfecting Political Performance: Spinning, Gandhi and
Virtuosity Rebecca M. Brown Chapter 9. Pedestrian Crossings: Some
Reflections on the Occasion of a Contemporary Judicial Spectacle Les Moran
Chapter 10. Ordinary/Extraordinary: Art, Politics, History Maria Tamboukou
Afterword Some Sociological Afterthoughts: Continuous vision and
rationalizations of cultural forms, secular rituals and Aesthetics
Emmanuel Pedler