Against Value
In The Arts And Education
ed. by Sam Ladkin, Robert McKay and Emile Bojesen ; texts by Hal Foster, Fabienne Collignon, Christian Lotz ...[et al.]

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Author(s)

Hal Foster, Fabienne Collignon, Christian Lotz, ...[et al.]

Editor(s)

Sam Ladkin, Robert McKay and Emile Bojesen

Publication

London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016

Scope

434 Pages, 22 cm.

ISBN

9781783484904

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Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its painful truths, and by instrumentalizing its ambivalence. This book diagnoses the counter-intuitive effects of the rhetoric of value. It posits that the auditing of values pervades the fabric of people’s work-lives, their education, and increasingly their everyday experience. The book uncovers figures of resentment, disenchantment and alienation fostered by the dogma of value. It argues instead that value judgments can behave insidiously, and incorporate aesthetic, ethical or ideological values fundamentally opposed to the “value” they purportedly name and describe.

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Keywords

art theory , value

Location

Cabinet 10 - 4: Kunst ; teksten