Table of Contents

preface Introduction 1. What is art really?(According to the general public, art historians, anthropologists and philosophers, art and artists) 2. What is a discipline? (Historically, globally,contemporary disciplines, elite disciplines, anti-disciplines 3. Why Disciplines? Neoliberalism and the strategy of disciplines, value and excellence 4. The discipline of art How art is a discipline 5. Art and other disciplines Levinas, Glissant and the other, multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity 6. Art and politics… and ethics 7. Art in Society 8. Genius! (the ongoing appeal of genius, exclusions from the shape of genius, towards understanding art and artists in other terms) Conclusion bibliography index

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A new definition of art which forefronts the role of the practicing artists, rather than the marketplace, in understanding what art is and why it's important

About the Author

Alana Jelinek is a Researcher in the School of Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is the author of This is Not Art: Activism and Other 'Not Art' (I.B. Tauris, 2013)

Reviews

‘Writing from within the artworld, Jelinek a hard look at the problems facing contemporary art and the responsibilities that artists themselves have in sorting them out. Her proposed solutions – the result of much reflection – will surprise, even outrage, people. It should be read by artists and non-artists alike.’
*Derek Matravers, Professor of Philosophy, The Open University, UK*