The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques Rancière

The Emancipated Spectator

Jacques Rancière with Gregory Elliott (Translator)

134 pages first pub 2008 (view editions)

nonfiction art philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Slow-burn, reflective essay for readers who savor intellectually challenging meditations on whether art can truly awaken its audience or merely stages another kind of passivity.

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The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal perfor...

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