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Grant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater possibilities for critical practice.

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In Beyond the Sovereign Self Grant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater possibilities for critical practice. Instead of grounding art in its distance from the social, Kester shows how socially engaged art, developed in conjunction with forms of social or political resistance, encourages the creative capacity required for collective political transformation. Among others, Kester analyzes the work of conceptual artist Adrian Piper, experimental practices associated with the escrache tradition in Argentina, and indigenous Canadian artists such as Nadia Myer and Michele Taina Audette, showing how socially engaged art catalyzes forms of resistance that operate beyond the institutional art world. From the Americas and Europe to Iran and South Africa, Kester presents a historical genealogy of recent engaged art practices rooted in a deep history of cultural production, beginning with nineteenth-century political struggles and continuing into contemporary anticolonial resistance and other social movements.

Author Biography

Grant H. Kester is Professor of Art History at the University of California, San Diego, author of The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde and The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context, and coeditor of Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995–2010, all also published by Duke University Press.

Table of Contents

Introduction  1I. Within and Beyond the Canon1. The Incommensurablity of Socially Engaged Art  332. Escrache and Autonomy  54II. From Object to Event3. Dematerialization and Aesthetics in Real Time  854. The Aesthetic of Answerability  105III. A Dialogical Aesthetic5. Social Labor and Communicative Action  1376. Our Pernicious Temporality  1717. Being Human as Praxis  202Conclusion. Beyond the White Wall  229Notes  235Works Cited  255Index  271

Review

"In a superlative demonstration of a hypothesis in action, Grant H. Kester's definitive study Beyond the Sovereign Self effectively melts down, then reimagines our stagnated concepts of aesthetic autonomy and avant-gardism in a dauntless bid to retheorize the increasingly entangled, if not indistinguishable, realms of twenty-first-century social activism and art." -- Gregory Sholette, author of * The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art *"With characteristic thoroughness, Grant H. Kester articulates the radical potential in challenging the cherished notion of art's autonomy. Centering dialogic and activist art practices, he insightfully argues that the social labor of cultural resistance necessarily operates in generative forms of collectivity and dissensus." -- Jennifer A. González, coeditor of * Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology *"Beyond the Sovereign Self serves to clear the space for another kind of art history, one focused on dialogical, not dialectical, approaches. In a world where subaltern subjects are more empowered than ever to speak, he reminds artists and art historians of the need to listen." -- John Zarobell * Theory & Event *"[Kester's] passion for this topic and his commitment to research is evident, and this title will serve as a record as we see the world change along with the next generation of artists." -- Eboni Jones-Stewart * ARLIS/NA *

Details ISBN1478025344 Publisher Duke University Press ISBN-13 9781478025344 Format Paperback Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2024-01-05 NZ Release Date 2024-01-05 UK Release Date 2024-01-05 Author Grant H. Kester Illustrations 7 illustrations Pages 296 Alternative 9781478020585 Audience Professional & Vocational ISBN-10 1478025344 DEWEY 701 Year 2023 Publication Date 2023-12-12 US Release Date 2023-12-12 We've got this

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