Friday, 1 December 2017

Aesthetic Revolutions Book Quotes


 P3(aesthetic revolutions) ‘avant gardes that strive to reach beyond art into “life” and aim to transform the world”

Called “extreme” “politicized” “revolutionary” “radical” “artistic-social” “poetico-political” “aesthetic-political”

The avant garde aims to “transform our ways of experiencing and sensing the world. To change the manner in which we perceive and experience reality”

Fourierste Gabriel-Desire Laverdant wrote”to know … weather the artist is truly of the avant garde, one must know where humanity is going, know what the destiny of the human race is”

“If man is ever to solve the problem of politics in pratcie he will have to approach it through the problem of the aesthetic, because it is only through beauty that man make his way to freedom.”

Similaryly, Jacques Ranciere has recently argued that “social revolution is the daughter of aesthetic revolution”

The 1960s neo-avant garde practices alternative lifestyles – including communal living. This is an idea that George promoted through soho. Can this be used today? Could it help with issues of expensive rent.

P4 “that art move from representing to transforming the world”
This was demand was there common call for art and “life to become one.
Petere Burgers Hegelian terms- “to Sublate” art: “art was not to be simply destroyed, but transferred to the paraxis of life where it would be preserved, albeit in changed form”


Cultural revolution is characterized by a redistribution of the sensible.

“American noe avant-garde artworks, he suggests, are less likely to be assertive instantiations of an ideological position than they are to be specific and singular occasions for members of the audience to experience an individual aesthetic and political awakening, thereby promoting the very sorts of diffrences that constitute the texture of freedom in society.”

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