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This volume aims to question, challenge, supplement, and revise current understandings of the relationship between aesthetic and political operations. The authors transcend disciplinary boundaries and nurture a wide-ranging sensibility about art and sovereignty, two highly complex and interwoven dimensions of human experience that have rarely been explored by scholars in one conceptual space. Several chapters consider the intertwining of modern philosophical currents and modernist artistic forms, in particular those revealing formal abstraction, stylistic experimentation, self-conscious expression, and resistance to traditional definitions of "Art." Other chapters deal with currents that emerged as facets of art became increasingly commercialized, merging with industrial design and popular entertainment industries. Some contributors address Post-Modernist art and theory, highlighting power relations and providing sceptical, critical commentary on repercussions of colonialism and notions of universal truths rooted in Western ideals. By interfering with established dichotomies and unsettling stable debates related to art and sovereignty, all contributors frame new perspectives on the co-constitution of artworks and practices of sovereignty.§§

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political science & theory

• Full title: Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics
• Author: Douglas Howland, Elizabeth Lillehoj, Maximilian Mayer
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781349950157
• ISBN: 9781349950157
• ID: 10921413
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 5358 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 148 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. December 2016

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