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Item Details
| Title:
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THE LIMITS OF ART
TWO ESSAYS |
| By: |
Tzvetan Todorov, Gila Walker (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£11.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1906497621 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781906497620 |
| Publisher: |
SEAGULL BOOKS LONDON LTD |
| Pub. date: |
15 December, 2010 |
| Series: |
The French List |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Description: |
Explores the complex relations between art, politics, and ethics. This book traces the intimate relationship between avant-garde art and radical politics in pre-revolutionary Russia, pre-fascist Italy, and pre-Nazi Germany. It re-examines the age-old question of what can be expected from art and whether it should be emancipated from ethics. |
| Synopsis: |
Tzvetan Todorov, one of Europe's leading intellectuals, explores the complex relations between art, politics, and ethics in the two essays that make up "The Limits of Art". In "Artists and Dictators," Todorov traces the intimate relationship between avant-garde art and radical politics in pre-revolutionary Russia, pre-fascist Italy, and pre-Nazi Germany. Todorov sets forth the radical idea that the project of totalitarian dictators and avant-garde artists actually 'emerged from the same womb': both artists and dictators set out to make it new - be it art or society. Further troubling the role of art in the world at large, in "Art and Ethics" Todorov re-examines the age-old question of what can be expected from art and whether it should be emancipated from ethics. Must art be morally instructive, or should it be self-sufficient and concept-free? The answer is not an either/or to Todorov, who believes, like Baudelaire, that art has both cognitive and ethical aspects to it - even if it is presented as art for art's sake. Throughout the essays in "The Limits of Art", Todorov insists on the essential need for artists to recognize, understand, and even love the world outside. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Returns: |
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