Cultural Activism Today
The Art of Over-Identification
ed. by BAVO ; text Benda Hofmeyr, Dieter Lesage, Boris Groys, Alexei Monroe

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Author(s)

Benda Hofmeyr, Dieter Lesage, Boris Groys, Alexei Monroe

Editor(s)

BAVO

Publication

Rotterdam : episode publishers, 2007

Scope

120 Pages, illustrated, 20 cm.

ISBN

9789059730618

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Art in 2007 threatened to get reduced to a purely empty exercise that offered the last men an escape from their petty bourgeois existence. The central question of this book is wether and how art can escape this suffocating situation.

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Person as subject

BAVO

Keywords

aesthetics - critical aesthetics , activism , institutional critique

Location

Cabinet 10 - 4: Kunst ; teksten

Extra themes

Reflections on Western Art, Art and Society

Remarks