Art, Agency and the Continued Assault on Authorship Blond Simon
Art, Agency and the Continued Assault on Authorship Blond Simon This book presents a counter-history to the relentless critique of the humanist subject and authorial agency that has taken place over…
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Art, Agency and the Continued Assault on Authorship Blond Simon
This book presents a counter-history to the relentless critique of the humanist subject and authorial agency that has taken place over the past fifty years.It is both an interrogation of that critique and the tracing of an alternative narrative from Romanticism to the twenty-first century which celebrates the agency of the artist as a powerful contribution to the wellbeing of the community. It also engages with a second issue that cannot be separated from the first. It does so through arguments based on philosophical aesthetics and cultural theory interspersed with case histories of particular artists.
This has become particularly important since the 1990s because of the social turn in art in which it is claimed that the only valid role for art was one that had explicit social consequences. This book This is the question of what the role and purpose of art is in society.