Art Rebellion

The Aesthetics of Social Transformation

Malcolm Miles

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Bloomsbury Academic
23 March 2023

Philosophy: aesthetics; Social & political philosophy

Art has always been central to moments of great social change. From the avant-garde to the ages of revolution, the act of rebellious creation has been crucial to bringing people and ideas together. However, in an increasingly fractured world characterised by upheaval and crisis, what role can art play in ushering in transformation?

Malcolm Miles offers a guide to contemporary art and activism, setting it firmly within the context of the avant garde and its legacies in the postwar period. He explores the rise of direct action to replace representational politics in organizations like Occupy and Extinction Rebellion, and in the movements to destroy or remove statues of slavers, and finds parallels in anti-institutional art practices. By engaging with the significant theoretical innovations of the last 50 years — modernism, postmodernism and contemporary critical thinking - Miles provides both an overview of political aesthetics and an introduction to how art activism works in its most memorable moments in history.

Art Rebellion argues that beauty is radically other to the dominant society; that power relations can be transformed;

that protest cultures and contemporary art grow together; and that art has a crucial interruptive role in forming new, more equal and just, realities.

By: Malcolm Miles
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350239975
ISBN 10: 1350239976
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 23 March 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Introduction Part One: Avant-Gardes 1. Signed In Red. The First Avant-Garde 2. Blue Voids. The Modernist Avant-Garde And The Permanence Of Art Part Two: Theories and Critiques 3. Society as a Work of Art? 4. States of Exception 5. Saying The Unsayable Part Three: Critical Practices 6. After The Statues 7. Exhibiting Dissent 8. Revolution is Sublime 9. Beauty is Convulsive Bibliography Index

Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth, UK. He is the author of Art, Space and the City (1997), Urban Avant-Gardes (2004), Cities and Cultures (2007), and Urban Utopias (2008), Herbert Marcuse: an Aesthetics of Liberation (2011), Eco-Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Limits to Culture (2015).

Reviews for Art Rebellion: The Aesthetics of Social Transformation

Art Rebellion stands up to an art-indifferent public and suggests—gently—that it may be possible for avant-garde art to change the world. This is in itself a rebellion, which Miles lays out with scholarly precision, humility, humor, and an acute sense of the aesthetic and the political at once. * Brinda Bose, Dr, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India * Malcolm Miles' Art Rebellion covers a wide range of issues, themes, and movements involving the conjunction of art and politics. The comprehensive scope of the book and relevance to contemporary political and aesthetic issues make this a highly significant and timely book. * Douglas Kellner, Distinguished Research Professor of Education, UCLA, USA *