{"product_id":"beyond-the-sovereign-self-9781478020585","title":"Beyond the Sovereign Self","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in \u003ci\u003eThe Sovereign Self\u003c\/i\u003e, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater possibilities for critical practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In a superlative demonstration of a hypothesis in action, Grant H. Kester’s definitive study \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Sovereign Self\u003c\/i\u003e effectively melts down, then reimagines our stagnated concepts of aesthetic autonomy and avant-gardism in a dauntless bid to retheorize the increasingly entangled, if not indistinguishable, realms of twenty-first-century social activism and art.” -- Gregory Sholette, author of * The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art *\u003cbr\u003e“With characteristic thoroughness, Grant H. Kester articulates the radical potential in challenging the cherished notion of art’s autonomy. Centering dialogic and activist art practices, he insightfully argues that the social labor of cultural resistance necessarily operates in generative forms of collectivity and dissensus.” -- Jennifer A. González, coeditor of * Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  1\u003cbr\u003e I. Within and Beyond the Canon\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Incommensurablity of Socially Engaged Art  33\u003cbr\u003e 2. Escrache and Autonomy  54\u003cbr\u003e II. From Object to Event\u003cbr\u003e 3. Dematerialization and Aesthetics in Real Time  85\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Aesthetic of Answerability  105\u003cbr\u003e III. A Dialogical Aesthetic\u003cbr\u003e 5. Social Labor and Communicative Action  137\u003cbr\u003e 6. Our Pernicious Temporality  171\u003cbr\u003e 7. Being Human as Praxis  202\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Beyond the White Wall  229\u003cbr\u003e Notes  235\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited  255\u003cbr\u003e Index  271","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409014399319,"sku":"9781478020585","price":73.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478020585.jpg?v=1730505093","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-the-sovereign-self-9781478020585","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}