Art And Autonomy
Author | : Sebastian Olma |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2018 |
ISBN-10 | : 9080179396 |
ISBN-13 | : 9789080179394 |
Rating | : 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: What does it mean to speak of artistic autonomy at a time when art is fully commercialised and aesthetics has become the guiding principle of economic production and policymaking? This book by Sebastian Olma takes a fresh look at this question by summoning three heroes of the aesthetic revolution to confront the challenges faced by artistic practice today. Turning Kant into a campaigner for the Anthropocene, Schiller into a creative entrepreneur, and Schelling into a political activist, Olma lays the groundwork for a critique that identifies "the contemporary" itself as contemporary art's greatest challenge in the struggle to reinvent its autonomy and regain its relevance to society.