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      Making Art in Terrible Times: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy

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      Essential essays on art in our current era from one of the most important art critics writing today.

      “This kaleidoscopic collection will help you see and comprehend the world anew—which is, in my book, what good art should do.”
      —Astra Taylor

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      Product ID:9781642595048
      Product Form:Hardback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Making Art in Terrible Times
      Subtitle:Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy
      Authors:Author: Ben Davis
      Page Count:180
      Subjects:The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues, Cultural studies, Impact of science and technology on society, Cultural studies, Impact of science & technology on society, 21st century
      Description:Essential essays on art in our current era from one of the most important art critics writing today.

      “This kaleidoscopic collection will help you see and comprehend the world anew—which is, in my book, what good art should do.”
      —Astra Taylor

      It is a scary and disorienting time for art, as it is a scary and disorienting time in general. Aesthetic experience is both overshadowed by the spectacle of current events and pressed into new connection with them. The self-image of art as a social good is collapsing under the weight of capitalism’s dysfunction.


      In these incisive essays, art critic Ben Davis makes sense of our extreme present as an emerging "after-culture"—a culture whose forms and functions are being radically reshaped by cataclysmic events. In the face of catastrophe, he holds out hope that reckoning with the new realities of art, technology, activism, and the media, can help us weather the super-storms of the future.

      Imprint Name:Haymarket Books
      Publisher Name:Haymarket Books
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2022-03-15

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      Weight496 g
      Dimensions146 × 224 × 24 mm