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Political Aesthetics - by Crispin Sartwell (Hardcover)

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  • "I suggest that although at any given place and moment the aesthetic expressions of a political system just are that political system, the concepts are separable.
  • About the Author: Crispin Sartwell is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Dickinson College as well as a music journalist.
  • 280 Pages
  • Art, Art & Politics

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About the Book



Juxtaposing and connecting the art of states and the art of art historians with vernacular or popular arts such as reggae and hip-hop, Crispin Sartwell suggests that we need to take much more seriously the aesthetics of political thought and action.



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"I suggest that although at any given place and moment the aesthetic expressions of a political system just are that political system, the concepts are separable. Typically, aesthetic aspects of political systems shift in their meaning over time, or even are inverted or redeployed with an entirely transformed effect. You cannot understand politics without understanding the aesthetics of politics, but you cannot understand aesthetics as politics. The point is precisely to show the concrete nodes at which two distinct discourses coincide or connive, come apart or coalesce."--from Political Aesthetics

Juxtaposing and connecting the art of states and the art of art historians with vernacular or popular arts such as reggae and hip-hop, Crispin Sartwell examines the reach and claims of political aesthetics. Most analysts focus on politics as discursive systems, privileging text and reducing other forms of expression to the merely illustrative. He suggests that we need to take much more seriously the aesthetic environment of political thought and action.Sartwell argues that graphic style, music, and architecture are more than the propaganda arm of political systems; they are its constituents. A noted cultural critic, Sartwell brings together the disciplines of political science and political philosophy, philosophy of art and art history, in a new way, clarifying basic notions of aesthetics--beauty, sublimity, and representation--and applying them in a political context. A general argument about the fundamental importance of political aesthetics is interspersed with a group of stimulating case studies as disparate as Leni Riefenstahl's films and Black Nationalist aesthetics, the Dead Kennedys and Jeffersonian architecture.



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Political aesthetics, called into being by Crispin Sartwell, attends to the aestheticfeatures of political science, that is, such things as political systems, andconstitutions. Understanding politics, which is the place of power, of contestationbetween interests and interest groups, is incomplete without political aesthetics.

--T. J. Diffey "Mind"

Sartwell proposes to expound and defend the bold and provocative view that although not all art is political, all politics is aesthetic.... Designed as an unconventional and unorthodox treatment of aesthetics and politics, this book is nicely written without too much jargon and enlivened by flashes of wit and insight.

-- "Choice"



About the Author



Crispin Sartwell is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Dickinson College as well as a music journalist. He is the author of several books, including Against the State, Six Names of Beauty, and Extreme Virtue.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.5 Inches (H) x 6.38 Inches (W) x .91 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.2 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 280
Genre: Art
Sub-Genre: Art & Politics
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Crispin Sartwell
Language: English
Street Date: August 15, 2010
TCIN: 1002211768
UPC: 9780801448904
Item Number (DPCI): 247-27-7655
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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