| #2929116 in Books | Cornell University Press | 2010-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x.91 x6.38l,1.20 | File Name: 0801448905 | 272 pages |
||3 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| A worthwhile read|By grey hedgehog|Readers looking for a book that strictly delimits and defines the idea or concept of political aesthetics will be disappointed; but this disappointment might be tempered by considering 'aesthetics' and 'politics' (or 'the political') as 'essentially contested concepts' in the first instance. This book does embrace a 'contemporary' perspectiv|||"Sartwell proposes to expound and defend the bold and provocative view that although not all art is political, all politics is aesthetic. . . . Designed as an unconventional and unorthodox treatment of aesthetics and politics, this book is nicely written wit
"I suggest that although at any given place and moment the aesthetic expressions of a political system just are that political system, the concepts are separable. Typically, aesthetic aspects of political systems shift in their meaning over time, or even are inverted or redeployed with an entirely transformed effect. You cannot understand politics without understanding the aesthetics of politics, but you cannot understand aesthetics as politics. The point is precisel...
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