The administration of aesthetics [[electronic resource] ] : censorship, political criticism, and the public sphere / / edited by Richard Burt (for the Social Text Collective)

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.44
• Soggetto topico: Censorship; Criticism - Political aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BurtRichard <1954->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The ""New"" Censorship; Part I. Criticism, Censorship, and the Early Modern Public Sphere; Part II. Censorship and Modernity; Part III. The New Censorship and Postmodernity; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The ""new"" censorship of the arts, some cultural critics say, is just one more item on the ""new"" Right's agenda, and is part and parcel of attempts to regulate sexuality, curtail female reproductive rights, deny civil rights to gays and lesbians, and privatize public institutions. Although they do not contest this assessment, the writers gathered here expose crucial difficulties in using censorship, old and new, as a tool for cultural criticism. Focusing on historical moments ranging from early modern Europe to the postmodern United States, and covering a variety of media from books and pai
• Titolo autorizzato: The administration of aesthetics
• ISBN: 0-8166-8557-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457381303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; ; v. 7.