Brown Autonomy

The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0267-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical conditions for the persistence of art's autonomy from the realm of the commodity by showing how an artist's commitment to form and by demanding interpretive attention elude the logic of capital.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. On Art and the Commodity Form 1
1. Photography as Film and Film as Photography 41
2. The Novel and the Ruse of the Work 79
3. Citation and Affect in Music 115
4. Modernism on TV 152
Epilogue. Taking Sides 178
Notes 183
Bibliography 207
Index 215

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Brown is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature, and coeditor of Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader.