Art and multitude
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Antonio Negri is an internationally famous political thinker. The book consists of nine letters on art written by Negri, about his conception of art in the postmodern world.
Nine letters on art, written to friends from exile in France in the 1980s. Starting from earlier materialist approaches to art, Negri relates artistic production to the structures of social production characteristic of each historical era. This enables him to define the nature of both material and artistic production in the era of post-modernity and post-Fordism - the era Negri characterizes as that of immaterial labour.
Negri then seeks to define artistic beauty in this new era, and this he does in terms of concepts that have become fundamental to his thinking - singularity, multitude, abstraction, collective work, event, the biopolitical, the common. Art is living labour, and therefore invention of singularity, of singular figures and objects. But this expressive act only achieves beauty when the signs and language through which it expresses itself turn themselves into community, when they are contained within a common project. The beautiful is not the act of imagining, but an imagination that has become action. Art, in this sense, is multitude.
Nine letters on art, written to friends from exile in France in the 1980s. Starting from earlier materialist approaches to art, Negri relates artistic production to the structures of social production characteristic of each historical era. This enables him to define the nature of both material and artistic production in the era of post-modernity and post-Fordism - the era Negri characterizes as that of immaterial labour.
Negri then seeks to define artistic beauty in this new era, and this he does in terms of concepts that have become fundamental to his thinking - singularity, multitude, abstraction, collective work, event, the biopolitical, the common. Art is living labour, and therefore invention of singularity, of singular figures and objects. But this expressive act only achieves beauty when the signs and language through which it expresses itself turn themselves into community, when they are contained within a common project. The beautiful is not the act of imagining, but an imagination that has become action. Art, in this sense, is multitude.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 maart 2011
Aantal pagina's: 224
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Antonio Negri
Hoofduitgeverij: Polity Press
Eerste Vertaler: Ed Emery
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 131 mm
Product hoogte: 15 mm
Product lengte: 197 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 128 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 16 mm
Verpakking lengte: 197 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 238 g
EAN: 9780745648996