Empowering Aesthetics
Contemporary Art from Post-Socialist Central Europe
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2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-44722-6 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
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The artistic strategies explored in this book are essential tools in fostering emancipatory consciousness in marginalized communities. Empowering Aesthetics weaves together case studies from the post-socialist Central European region (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) to show how art can provide critical support to gender, sexual and racialized groups. The empowering aesthetics employed by the artists in this book are not only urgent and critical, but also vitally personal, each chapter building a clear understanding of what social equality looks like in these specific political and geographic contexts. These practices are a response to the rise of nationalism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia in the region.
Engaging with contemporary philosophy and feminist, queer and decolonial (art) theory (Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, Angela Dimitrakaki, Boris Groys, Jack Halberstam, Grant Kester, Ewa Majewska, Paul B. Preciado, Legacy Russell, Madina Tlostanova, etc.), this book highlights a shift in the understanding of the artwork and aesthetic experience that is enduring rather than immediate, drawing attention to a given community. The projects discussed in this book are created with the artist and the wider community or family in mind and are created in intersubjective connection with others. This volume highlights that empowering aesthetics perform an important function in challenging these narratives while contributing to building an inclusive collective memory that emancipate systematically marginalized individuals and communities.
Engaging with contemporary philosophy and feminist, queer and decolonial (art) theory (Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, Angela Dimitrakaki, Boris Groys, Jack Halberstam, Grant Kester, Ewa Majewska, Paul B. Preciado, Legacy Russell, Madina Tlostanova, etc.), this book highlights a shift in the understanding of the artwork and aesthetic experience that is enduring rather than immediate, drawing attention to a given community. The projects discussed in this book are created with the artist and the wider community or family in mind and are created in intersubjective connection with others. This volume highlights that empowering aesthetics perform an important function in challenging these narratives while contributing to building an inclusive collective memory that emancipate systematically marginalized individuals and communities.
Denisa Tomková is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Theory of Art and Artworks at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. (Not) Being at Home in Institutions
3. Unintended Diaspora
4. Survival of Those Who Fit?
5. Can a Woman Sing?
6 Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.4.2025 |
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Reihe/Serie | Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art |
Zusatzinfo | 15 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-44722-6 / 1350447226 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-44722-6 / 9781350447226 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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