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The future of the image

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In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined.

He argues that there is a stark political choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy or create a new reactionary mysticism.

For Rancière there is never a pure art: the aesthetic revolution must always embrace egalitarian ideals.

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Product Details
Verso Books
1788736540 / 9781788736541
Paperback / softback
03/09/2019
United Kingdom
English
160 pages
20 cm
Reprint. Translated from the French. Originally published: 2007.