Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781350100480 |
ISBN10: | 135010048X |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 296 pages |
Size: | 198x129 mm |
Weight: | 417 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 30 bw illus |
227 |
Category:
Arts in general
Aesthetics
Philosophy of politics
Art history in general
Other braches of fine arts
Further readings in politics
Arts in general (charity campaign)
Aesthetics (charity campaign)
Philosophy of politics (charity campaign)
Art history in general (charity campaign)
Other braches of fine arts (charity campaign)
Further readings in politics (charity campaign)
Between Discipline and a Hard Place
The Value of Contemporary Art
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date of Publication: 6 August 2020
Number of Volumes: Hardback
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Written from the perspective of a practising artist, this book proposes that, against a groundswell of historians, museums and commentators claiming to speak on behalf of art, it is artists alone who may define what art really is.
Jelinek contends that while there are objects called 'art' in museums from deep into human history and from around the globe - from Hans Sloane's collection, which became the foundation of the British Museum, to Alfred Barr's inclusion of 'primitive art' within the walls of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art - only those that have been made with the knowledge and discipline of art should rightly be termed as such. Policing the definition of art in this way is not to entrench it as an elitist occupation, but in order to focus on its liberal democratic potential.
Between Discipline and a Hard Place describes the value of art outside the current preoccupation with economic considerations yet without resorting to a range of stereotypical and ultimately instrumentalist political or social goods, such as social inclusion or education. A wider argument is also made for disciplinarity, as Jelinek discusses the great potential as well as the pitfalls of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary working, particularly with the so-called 'creative' arts.
A passionate treatise arguing for a new way of understanding art that forefronts the role of the artist and the importance of inclusion within both the concept of art and the art world.
Jelinek contends that while there are objects called 'art' in museums from deep into human history and from around the globe - from Hans Sloane's collection, which became the foundation of the British Museum, to Alfred Barr's inclusion of 'primitive art' within the walls of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art - only those that have been made with the knowledge and discipline of art should rightly be termed as such. Policing the definition of art in this way is not to entrench it as an elitist occupation, but in order to focus on its liberal democratic potential.
Between Discipline and a Hard Place describes the value of art outside the current preoccupation with economic considerations yet without resorting to a range of stereotypical and ultimately instrumentalist political or social goods, such as social inclusion or education. A wider argument is also made for disciplinarity, as Jelinek discusses the great potential as well as the pitfalls of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary working, particularly with the so-called 'creative' arts.
A passionate treatise arguing for a new way of understanding art that forefronts the role of the artist and the importance of inclusion within both the concept of art and the art world.
Table of Contents:
preface
Introduction
1. What is art really?(According to the general public, art historians, anthropologists and philosophers, art and artists)
2. What is a discipline? (Historically, globally,contemporary disciplines, elite disciplines, anti-disciplines
3. Why Disciplines? Neoliberalism and the strategy of disciplines, value and excellence
4. The discipline of art How art is a discipline
5. Art and other disciplines Levinas, Glissant and the other, multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity
6. Art and politics. and ethics
7. Art in Society
8. Genius! (the ongoing appeal of genius, exclusions from the shape of genius, towards understanding art and artists in other terms)
Conclusion
bibliography
index
Introduction
1. What is art really?(According to the general public, art historians, anthropologists and philosophers, art and artists)
2. What is a discipline? (Historically, globally,contemporary disciplines, elite disciplines, anti-disciplines
3. Why Disciplines? Neoliberalism and the strategy of disciplines, value and excellence
4. The discipline of art How art is a discipline
5. Art and other disciplines Levinas, Glissant and the other, multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity
6. Art and politics. and ethics
7. Art in Society
8. Genius! (the ongoing appeal of genius, exclusions from the shape of genius, towards understanding art and artists in other terms)
Conclusion
bibliography
index