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This book studies the tension between arts and politics in four contemporary artists from different countries, working with different media. The film directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne film parts of their natal city to refer to specific political problems in interpersonal relations. The novelist Arundhati Roy uses her poetic language to make room for people's desires; her fiction is utterly political and her political essays make place for the role of narratives and poetic language. Ai Weiwei uses references to Chinese history to give consistency to its 'economic miracle'. Finally, Burial's electronic music is firmly rooted in a living, breathing London; built to create a sound that is entirely new, and yet hauntingly familiar. These artists create in their own way a space for politics in their works and their oeuvre but their singularity comes together as a desire to reconstruct the political space within art from its ruins. These ruins were brought by the disenchantment of 1970s: the end of art, postmodernism, and the rise of design, marketing and communication. Each artwork bears the mark of the resistance against the depoliticisation of society and the arts, at once rejecting cynicism and idealism, referring to themes and political concepts that are larger than their own domain. This book focuses on these productive tensions.Product Identifiers
PublisherRowman & Littlefield International
ISBN-139781783485680
eBay Product ID (ePID)221970942
Product Key Features
Number of Pages138 Pages
Publication NameThe Political Space of Art: the Dardenne Brothers, Arundhati Roy, Ai Weiwei and Burial
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Art & Culture
AuthorBenoit Dillet, Tara Puri
SeriesExperiments/On the Political
Dimensions
Item Height227 mm
Item Weight218 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorTara Puri, Benoit Dillet