Art After the Avant-Garde: Baudrillard's Challenge
by Gerry Coulter
ISBN-13:
978-0-9789902-6-8
cultural theory/art theory/philosophy
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Release Date: March 2014
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Product
Description
After we have read Jean Baudrillard it is difficult to see the world as we
previously did. Baudrillard offered a strong challenge to art and artists,
as he did everyone else. Many believe that Baudrillard was against art when
he was really against the majority of things which some person or group has
attempted to pass off as art. Baudrillard’s significance for art however,
is that he wipes the decks clear and allows us to think anew about the art
we love, and the art we do not. One of the implications of this book - a book
about seeing art after taking Baudrillard seriously - is that we learn art
never had a better friend, than Jean Baudrillard.
About
the Author
Gerry Coulter is the founding editor of the International Journal
of Baudrillard Studies, and the author of Jean
Baudrillard: From the Ocean to the Desert, or the Poetics of Radicality.
He has received Bishop’s University’s highest award for teaching
– the William and Nancy Turner Prize.