Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde

Name: Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde
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By John Roberts

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Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde examines the resurgence of politicised art practice since the early twenty-first century, offering a sustained defence of this development. John Roberts revitalises the Frankfurt School legacy by critically assessing the avant-garde's role amid the crises of contemporary capitalism. The book provides refined conceptual tools to engage with leading art theorists like Hal Foster, Alain Badiou, and Toni Negri, exploring the avant-garde as a revolutionary cultural force.
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This book is suited to readers interested in art theory, cultural criticism, Marxist approaches to art, and the relationship between art and politics in contemporary capitalism. It will especially appeal to scholars, students, and practitioners seeking a serious theoretical framework for understanding avant-garde art today.

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Why the avant-garde of art needs to be rehabilitated today

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Since the decidedly bleak beginning of the twenty-first century, art practice has become increasingly politicised. Yet few have put forward a sustained defence of this development. Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde is the first book to look at the legacy of the avant-garde in relation to the deepening crisis of contemporary capitalism.

An invigorating revitalisation of the Frankfurt School legacy, Roberts's book defines and validates the avant-garde idea with an erudite acuity, providing a refined conceptual set of tools to engage critically with the most advanced art theorists of our day, such as Hal Foster, Andrew Benjamin, Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Paolo Virno, Claire Bishop, Michael Hardt, and Toni Negri.

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Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde has been praised as the most informed and intellectually rigorous defence of avant-garde practice currently available. Marc James Léger highlights Roberts's vision of art as emancipatory rather than commodified by neoliberal cultural industries. Andrew Hemingway recognises Roberts as a highly original Marxist critic of contemporary visual arts. Earlier works by Roberts, such as The Intangibilities of Form, also received acclaim for offering radical alternatives to conventional understandings of modern and contemporary art.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781781689134

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 August 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 534g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. His books includeThe Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday, The Philistine Controversy (with Dave Beech), Philosophizing the Everyday, and The Necessity of Errors. He is also a contributor to Radical Philosophy, Oxford Art Journal, Historical Materialism, Third Text, and Cabinet magazine.

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