Beauty of a Social Problem Photography, Autonomy, Economy

Name: Beauty of a Social Problem Photography, Autonomy, Economy
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ISBN: 9780226210261

ISBN-10: 022621026X

ISBN-13: 9780226210261

Edition: 2015

Authors: Walter Benn Michaels

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Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem’s “beauty and attraction” invisible. In The Beauty of a Social Problem, Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy.Although he discusses well-known figures like Walker Evans and Jeff Wall, Michaels’s focus is on a group of younger artists, including Viktoria Binschtok, Phil Chang, Liz Deschenes, and Arthur Ou. All born after 1965, they have always lived in a world where, on the one hand, artistic ambition has been synonymous with the critique of…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/13/2015
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.81" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English