{"product_id":"revolutionary-time-and-the-avantgarde-isbn-9781781689134","title":"Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy the avant-garde of art needs to be rehabilitated today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Since the decidedly bleak beginning of the twenty-first century, art practice has become increasingly politicized. Yet few have put forward a sustained defence of this development. \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to look at the legacy of the avant-garde in relation to the deepening crisis of contemporary capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn invigorating revitalization of the Frankfurt School legacy, Roberts’s book defines and validates the avant-garde idea with an erudite acuity, providing a refined conceptual set of tools to engage critically with the most advanced art theorists of our day, such as Hal Foster, Andrew Benjamin, Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Paolo Virno, Claire Bishop, Michael Hardt, and Toni Negri.“Simultaneously performs and advocates the conceptual terms through which [Roberts] understands a contemporary avant-garde program.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eRed Wedge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e is without question the most informed, cogent, and intellectually grounded defence of avant-garde praxis today. Roberts provides a vision of art that is disabused of the business models of the neoliberal culture industries, that neither dissolves politics into art nor attempts to insulate art from functioning as an emancipatory revolutionary force.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Marc James Léger, author of \u003ci\u003eBrave New Avant Garde\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Neoliberal Undead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Over the last two decades, John Roberts has established himself as probably the most original Marxist critic of the contemporary visual arts around.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Andrew Hemingway\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Intangibilities of Form\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Roberts’s \u003ci\u003eIntangibilities of Form\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly important book. It offers an unusually thoughtful, and genuinely radical, alternative to dominant ways of understanding the nature of art in the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Alex Potts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Intangibilities of Form\u003c\/i\u003e proposes nothing less than a powerfully original labor theory of culture, highlighting the prominence of a context shaped by the readymade, to account for the constitutive interlacing of contemporary art and technology, skill, and deskilling. By situating the instance of conceptual art within an environment of production marked by the structuring logic of the commodity form and social division of labor, he has both restored to art criticism and art history a lost vocation, and delivered to cultural studies and its current explanatory ambitions a demanding challenge.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Harry Harootunian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Philistine Controversy\u003c\/i\u003e (with Dave Beech), \u003ci\u003ePhilosophizing the Everyday\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Necessity of Errors\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also a contributor to \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxford Art Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHistorical Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThird Text\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCabinet\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303733481701,"sku":"NP9781781689134","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781781689134.jpg?v=1767735722","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/revolutionary-time-and-the-avantgarde-isbn-9781781689134","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}