The Art of Democracy: Towards Plural Hegemony

by Julia Svetlichnaja

Art's obsession with politics is a problem, even a paradox. The more art there is, the less it shares with the political. Even the radical character of contemporary artistic practices revolves around the idea that there are no alternatives to liberal democracy and capitalist pluralism without risking another dystopia - a paradigm that, in the artistic realm, is articulated as the opposition between modernism and postmodernism.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138925640
• ISBN13: 9781138925649
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages