Practical aesthetics : events, affect and art after 9/11 / Jill Bennett.
Beginning with the cultural watershed of 9/11, internationally-renowned scholar Jill Bennett explores artistic developments in relation to current events to argue that understanding aesthetics is as vital to social and political theory as it is to the arts. Taking as its starting-point a definition...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2012.
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| Summary: | Beginning with the cultural watershed of 9/11, internationally-renowned scholar Jill Bennett explores artistic developments in relation to current events to argue that understanding aesthetics is as vital to social and political theory as it is to the arts. Taking as its starting-point a definition of art as the critical, self-conscious manipulation of media, Bennett examines a wide range of events from the "War on Terror" to the football World Cup to elucidate how aesthetic perception works in a social field, a process that begins with the rich emotional content of the visual imagery with which we are constantly bombarded. Now more than ever, Bennett argues, understanding how what we see informs what we do is not merely an artistic endeavor but one which is fundamental to our very being. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 234 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1780761457 9781780761459 |