9. 5 Theses on Art and Class

Name: 9. 5 Theses on Art and Class
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ISBN: 9781608462681

ISBN-10: 1608462684

ISBN-13: 9781608462681

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ben Davis

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"Among excellent younger critics now is Ben Davis."Peter Schjeldahl, art critic forThe New Yorker9.5 Theses on Art and Class and Other Writingsseeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art's most persistent debates, from definitions of political art to the troubled status of "outsider" and street art to the question of how we maintain faith in art itself.Ben Daviscurrently lives and works in New York City where he is Executive Editor at Artinfo.

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 7/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.88" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Introduction


Art and Class



Art and Class



9.5 Theses on Art and Class


Art and Politics



What Good Is Political Art in Times Like These?



Collective Delusions



How Political Are Aesthetic Politics?


Art and its Audiences



Art and Inequality



The Agony of the Interloper



Beneath Street Art, the Beach



White Walls, Glass Ceiling



Hipster Aesthetics


Art and Theory



Commerce and Consciousness



Crisis and Criticism



In Defense of Concepts



The Semi-Post-Postmodern Condition


Conclusions



Beyond the Art World



To the Future


Further Reading


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index