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022621026x
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9780226210261
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022621043x
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9780226210438
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TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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The beauty of a social problem :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
photography, autonomy, economy /
First Statement of Responsibility
Walter Benn Michaels
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 230 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
Other Physical Details
illustrations (some color), portraits ;
Dimensions
21 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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Graphs. The top decile income share, 1917-2012 ; Net productivity and real hourly compensation of production/nonsupervisory workers, 1948-2012 ; Median family net worth in dollars ; Economy-wide returns on invested capital (ROIC), 1965-2009
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Formal feelings -- Neoliberal aesthetics -- The experience of meaning -- The art of inequality: then and now -- Never again, or nevermore
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's 'beauty and attraction' invisible. In 'The Beauty of a Social Problem,' Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy. Although he discusses well known figures like Walker Evans and Jeff Wall, Michaels's focus is on a group of younger artists, including Viktoria Binschtok, Phil Chang, Liz Deschenes, and Arthur Ou. All born after 1965, they have always lived in a world where, on the one hand, artistic ambition has been synonymous with the critique of autonomous form and intentional meaning, while, on the other, the struggle between capital and labor has essentially been won by capital. Contending that the aesthetic and political conditions are connected, Michaels argues that these artists' new commitment to form and meaning is a way for them to depict the conditions that have taken the U.,S. economic inequality from its lowest level, in 1968, to its highest level today. As Michaels demonstrates, these works of art, unimaginable without the postmodern critique of autonomy and intentionality, end up departing and dissenting from that critique in continually interesting and innovative ways"--Amazon.com
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Art criticism
Art, American-- Photography
Critical theory
Formalism (Art)
Neoliberalism
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Michaels, Walter Benn
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Date of Transaction
20151208085448.0
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