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Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde

John Roberts

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English
Verso Books
26 August 2015
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. Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde is the first book to look at the legacy of the avant-garde in relation to the deepening crisis of contemporary capitalism.

An

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.

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Imprint:   Verso Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   534g
ISBN:   9781781689134
ISBN 10:   178168913X
Pages:   320
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. His books includeThe Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday, The Philistine Controversy (with Dave Beech), Philosophizing the Everyday, and The Necessity of Errors. He is also a contributor to Radical Philosophy, Oxford Art Journal, Historical Materialism, Third Text, and Cabinet magazine.

Reviews for Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde

Over the last two decades, John Roberts has established himself as probably the most original Marxist critic of the contemporary visual arts around. Andrew Hemingway Praise for The Intangibilities of Form Roberts s Intangibilities of Form 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. Alex Potts The Intangibilities of Form 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. Harry Harootunian


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