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The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde : The journey of the ‘painterly real', 1987–2004 / / Angela Harutyunyan



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Autore: Harutyunyan Angela Visualizza persona
Titolo: The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde : The journey of the ‘painterly real', 1987–2004 / / Angela Harutyunyan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, 2017
Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019
©2017
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 pages)
Disciplina: 700.411
Soggetto topico: Politics and government
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Art - Political aspects
Art, Armenian
Art - Political aspects - Armenia (Republic)
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Armenia - History - 20th century
Art, Armenian - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Armenia
Armenia (Republic)
Armenia (Republic) Politics and government
Soggetto genere / forma: History
Soggetto non controllato: aesthetics
autonomy
avant-garde
continuity
late Soviet
liberal democracy
post-Soviet
rupture
'contemporary art'
'painterly real'
Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2017.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-278) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover -- The political aesthetics of the Armenianavant-garde -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Between the ideal and a hard place: the conceptual horizons of the avant-garde in Armenia -- 2 The 'painterly real' of contemporary art: resurrected ghosts, living heroes and saintly saviours on the 3rd Floor, 1987-9 4 -- 3 Suspending the 'painterly real': ACT's procedures of 'pure creation', 1993-96 -- 4 The revenge of the 'painterly real': national post-conceptualism, 1995-98 -- 5 The reign of the 'painterly real' and the politics of crisis, 1999-2004 -- Select bibliography -- Index.
Sommario/riassunto: This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004. It explores the emergence of 'contemporary art' in Armenia from within and in opposition to the practices, aesthetics and institutions of Socialist Realism and National Modernism. This historical study outlines the politics (liberal democracy), aesthetics (autonomous art secured by the gesture of the individual artist), and ethics (ideals of absolute freedom and radical individualism) of contemporary art in Armenia and points towards its limitations. Through the historical investigation, a theory of post-Soviet art historiography is developed, one that is based on a dialectic of rupture and continuity in relation to the Soviet past. As the first English-language study on contemporary art in Armenia, the book is of prime interest for artists, scholars, curators and critics interested in post-Soviet art and culture and in global art historiography.
Titolo autorizzato: The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9781526114396
1526114399
9781526124074
1526124076
9781526114389
1526114380
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910963317103321
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Serie: Rethinking art's histories.