Inspired by the Institute for the Future of the Book, Minor Compositions
is launching a digital form for the forthcoming book Artpolitik: Social
Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation by Neala Schleuning.
Over the next month the entirety of the draft manuscript will be posted
here: http://artpolitik.digress.it.
Comments and discussions will be integrated into revisions of the book
before it is printed later this year (which will, as with all other
Minor Compositions titles, be available for free download).
Cheers, stevphen
More information
Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation
Neala Schleuning
Artpolitik examines the relationship between art and politics, focusing
on radical political aesthetics in western culture since the end of the
nineteenth century. Drawing from Surrealism, Socialist Realism, the
Situationist International, capitalist consumer aesthetics, and critical
theory, Neala Schleuning elaborates a social anarchist approach to
aesthetics.
Artpolitik is not a history of radical art production but an exploration
of the core ideas inspiring radical art. This provocative book is
guaranteed to both challenge and inform, reframing radical aesthetics
for the challenges of the present. It features an exploration of ideas
and techniques employed by artists for more effective communication of
radical political ideas. Art has played a central role in revolutionary
change throughout history, and our own times call for a revitalization
of art in the service of liberatory politics. This book is an effort to
understand how new ideas seeking to position themselves vis a vis the
aesthetic tradition while simultaneously reflecting the transformation
of political and social movement cultures in new directions.
Bio: Neala Schleuning is a writer and educator. She received her PhD in
American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1978 with an
emphasis in political philosophy and intellectual history. Fulbright
Scholar to the Russian Federation, she is the author of many articles,
higher education policy papers, films and radio productions, and several
books, including America: Song We Sang Without Knowing (1983); Idle
Hands and Empty Hearts: Work and Freedom in the United States (1990);
Women, Community, and the Hormel Strike of 1985-86 (1994); and To Have
and to Hold: the Meaning of Ownership in the United States (1997).
Minor Compositions, Wivenhoe / Brooklyn / Port Watson
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from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of
everyday life.
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