Description: Further DetailsTitle: The New PhilistinesCondition: NewEAN: 9781785901270ISBN: 9781785901270Publisher: Biteback PublishingFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/06/2016Item Weight: 170gAuthor: Sohrab AhmariLanguage: EnglishDescription: Contemporary art is obsessed with the politics of identity. Visit any contemporary gallery, museum or theatre, and chances are the art on offer will be principally concerned with race, gender, sexuality, power and privilege.The quest for truth, freedom and the sacred has been thrust aside to make room for identity politics. Mystery, individuality and beauty are out; radical feminism, racial grievance and queer theory are in. The result is a drearily predictable culture and the narrowing of the space for creative self-expression and honest criticism.Sohrab Ahmari's book is a passionate cri de coeur against this state of affairs. The New Philistines takes readers deep inside a cultural scene where all manner of ugly, inept art is celebrated so long as it toes the ideological line, and where the artistic glories of the Western world are revised and disfigured to fit the rigid doctrines of identity politics.The degree of politicisation means that art no longer performs its historical function, as a mirror and repository of the human spirit - something that should alarm not just art lovers but anyone who cares about the future of liberal civilisation.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: ProvocationsTopic: Arts & Photography, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The New Philistines
Title: The New Philistines
EAN: 9781785901270
ISBN: 9781785901270
Release Date: 10/06/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Series: Provocations
Book Title: New Philistines
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: History / Contemporary (1945-), Art & Politics, Aesthetics, Essays, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Art, Philosophy, Political Science, Social Science
Item Weight: 6 Oz
Author: Sohrab Ahmari
Item Length: 7.4 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Book Series: Provocations Ser.
Format: Hardcover
