List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part One: Avant-Gardes
1. Signed In Red. The First Avant-Garde
2. Blue Voids. The Modernist Avant-Garde And The Permanence Of
Art
Part Two: Theories and Critiques
3. Society as a Work of Art?
4. States of Exception
5. Saying The Unsayable
Part Three: Critical Practices
6. After The Statues
7. Exhibiting Dissent
8. Revolution is Sublime
9. Beauty is Convulsive
Bibliography
Index
An exploration of the history and contemporary expressions of art for social change and a lively and comprehensive excursion into how political aesthetics is central to how we live today.
Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth, UK. He is the author of Art, Space and the City (1997), Urban Avant-Gardes (2004), Cities and Cultures (2007), and Urban Utopias (2008), Herbert Marcuse: an Aesthetics of Liberation (2011), Eco-Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Limits to Culture (2015).
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