{"product_id":"autonomy-9781478001249","title":"Autonomy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical conditions for the persistence of art's autonomy from the realm of the commodity by showing how an artist's commitment to form and by demanding interpretive attention elude the logic of capital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eAutonomy\u003c\/i\u003e, Brown revitalizes a modernist commitment to form and offers a compelling vision of the work of art in the age of its commodification.\" -- Adam Theron-Lee Rensch * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Brown's argument feels, in the end, surprisingly liberating.… No doubt, there are questions prompted by the book that we still might want to have answered.… But these queries are obviously presented less as a critique of \u003ci\u003eAutonomy\u003c\/i\u003e than a plea to scholars to take up related questions in future volumes. \u003ci\u003eAutonomy\u003c\/i\u003e inspires such questions because this is a book that unabashedly and provocatively makes demands of us, in the way the very best scholarship, like the very best manifestos and all art, does too.\" -- Lisa Siraganian * Modernism\/modernity *\u003cbr\u003e\"A thorough and valuable commentary on the contemporary position of art within capitalism. \u003ci\u003eAutonomy\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for researchers and students with an interest in contemporary art in relation to the market, and for those interested in Marxist approaches to contemporary aesthetic form.\" -- Oliver Haslam * New Formations *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. On Art and the Commodity Form  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Photography as Film and Film as Photography  41\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Novel and the Ruse of the Work  79\u003cbr\u003e 3. Citation and Affect in Music  115\u003cbr\u003e 4. Modernism on TV  152\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Taking Sides  178\u003cbr\u003e Notes  183\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  207\u003cbr\u003e Index  215","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408970391895,"sku":"9781478001249","price":103.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478001249.jpg?v=1730504910","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/autonomy-9781478001249","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}