03330oam 2200649Ia 450 991077833550332120190503073343.00-262-26077-81-282-10084-X97866121008400-262-27444-21-4356-3172-2(CKB)1000000000482580(OCoLC)463187167(CaPaEBR)ebrary10214160(SSID)ssj0000105967(PQKBManifestationID)11129289(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105967(PQKBWorkID)10106346(PQKB)11554231(MiAaPQ)EBC3338770(OCoLC)209037921(OCoLC)463187167(OCoLC)646404480(OCoLC)696115502(OCoLC)704036980(OCoLC)709840939(OCoLC)722641194(OCoLC)961588301(OCoLC)962560856(OCoLC)1037480155(OCoLC-P)209037921(MaCbMITP)7469(Au-PeEL)EBL3338770(CaPaEBR)ebr10214160(CaONFJC)MIL210084(OCoLC)209037921(EXLCZ)99100000000048258020080226d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrArt power /Boris GroysCambridge, Mass. MIT Press©20081 online resource (197 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-262-07292-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-[190]).Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideological function. Art, Groys writes, is produced and brought before the public in two ways-- as a commodity and as a tool of political propaganda. In the contemporary art scene, very little attention is paid to the latter function. <br /><br />Arguing for the inclusion of politically motivated art in contemporary art discourse, Groys considers art produced under totalitarianism, Socialism and post-Communism. He also considers today's mainstream Western art-- which he finds behaving more and more according the norms of ideological propaganda: produced and exhibited for the masses at international exhibitions, biennials and festivals. Contemporary art, Groys argues, demonstrates its power by appropriating the iconoclastic gestures directed against itself-- by positioning itself simultaneously as an image and as a critique of the image. In Art Power, Groys examines this fundamental appropriation that produces the paradoxical object of the modern artwork.ArtPolitical aspectsArt and stateArt, Modern20th centuryPhilosophyARTS/GeneralArtPolitical aspects.Art and state.Art, ModernPhilosophy.701/.03Groĭs Boris859975OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910778335503321Art power3832033UNINA