After the Great Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Difficulties

by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

A Western Marxist reading of contemporary art, focusing on the question of the continued presence (or absence) of the avant-garde's transgressive impulse.

Taking art's ability to contribute to radical social transformation as its point of departure, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen's new title from Zero Books analyses the relationship between the current neoliberal hegemony and contemporary art, including relational aesthetics and interventionist art,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785357581
• ISBN13: 9781785357589
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Zero Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"