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Jacques Rancière

In my last year of my Masters degree we were required to read Rancière. He undermined the possibility of understanding art when he said of revolution, (rather I should say Rancière having given up all hope of revolution)  that  Marxists think  a revolution or (equality) is always just over the horizon. In this he has… Continue reading Jacques Rancière

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Voronsky

“The artist who has understood the truth about the class character of art must explain: in the interests of what class does he create his art? He is obliged to throw overboard all the insignificant theories about how art is above politics, how it exists for itself and is sufficient unto itself, how the artist… Continue reading Voronsky

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Didi-Huberman

Richter’s Atlas Micromega runs into hundreds of sheets, of faces, snapshots, mountains, cities, paintings, candles, nudes, landscapes: in short all the material that fed his large scale pieces. But the Atlas Micromega exists also for its own sake: as a testament to what the artist saw, and what he collected, and how he sequenced them. I see a through-line here, from… Continue reading Didi-Huberman

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Problem of separating politics from aesthetics

Melanie Lazarow Artist “The Wind Rises shines light on the indelible problematics of segregating politics from aesthetics – which is the prime modus operandi of modern and contemporary art which, impelled to construct something of ‘beauty’, consequently feels it is ‘informed’ and ‘compelled to inform’ us about the world into which those constructs of beauty… Continue reading Problem of separating politics from aesthetics

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