The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde
The Journey of the 'Painterly Real', 1987-2004
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-Sov…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-1439-6
- EAN: 9781526114396
- Produktnummer: 27907454
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'091 KB
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Angela Harutyunyan is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Theory at the American University of Beirut.
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