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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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.