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Poems and Parables on the Political Utility of Art

Karl Katz Lydn

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  • 92 sidor
  • 2021
Like a donkey dressed in zebras clothing, criticism can appear in a borrowed coat; perhaps it can even reveal itself in stolen poems. Here, among fables of donkeys, shoemakers and barricades, German angels and non-German angels, and a few lines from Emily Dickinson, the transformative possibilities of art are unfolded in the figure of labor. Poems and Parables on the Political Utility of Art is a small book. It looks like poetry, but it is better described as a kind of criticism. Taking up some recent disqualifications of arts political potential, it refutes them in a threefold movement: against the notion of commodification of works of art; against the act of denouncing art as always-already reified from the safe position of a pure, untouched theory; against the notions that art must either reveal our alienation, or produce immediate effects on the social sphere. Outlining arts transformative possibilities in the figure of a certain labor, the argument is shaped among fables of donkeys, zebras from Gaza, apes from Adorno, and a particular barricade from the Paris Commune.
  • Författare: Karl Katz Lydn
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9783964360526
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 92
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-10-25
  • Förlag: BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE UG (haftungsbeschrankt)