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Description:In 1516 Thomas More wrote Utopia. His book depicted the journey of Raphael Hythloday to an island where he found a society without social injustice, inequality and kleptocracy. It was a catalyst not only for a new genre in literature but gave important impulses in the struggles for political emancipation that would define modernity. More’s book can be read as an antidote to the Enclosure Acts in his home country England that dispossessed farmers, abandoned ideas of the commons and established laws that would create the foundations for early capitalism. In the aftermath of More’s book the concept of utopia became eponymous for the need to find solutions for organizing a more egalitariansociety under conditions of scarce resources.In the 19th century utopian socialists attempted to put these schemes into reality by establishing intentional communities. Later the artistic avant-garde of the 1920s explicitly adopted utopian strategies to subvert the status quo. The totalitarian regimes of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin lead to a paradigmatic shift on utopianism. In the aftermath of World War II utopian thinking was linked to totalitarianism and even a short flare-up of utopian energies in 1968 did not fundamentally change that perception. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the “end of history” that Francis Fukuyama proclaimed was also, in Joachim Fest’s words, “the end of utopia”. But the contradictions of the new status quo led to a reemergence of utopian thinking in the art world that had its first major manifestation at the Venice Biennale in 2003 with the Utopia Station. The upsurge of demand for new ways of organizing society was amplified by the 2008 economic crisis. With a multitude of exhibitions, artists using utopian concepts and curators that areinspired by it a conceptual clarification of what is utopian in the 21st century is of critical importance, and not only in the context of contemporary art. Leaving the pejorative colloquial uses of utopia aside, what is Utopia today? Thomas More himself created an ambiguity with his neologism “utopia”, which is a composite word of the old Greek words “outopia” (no-place) and “eutopia” (good place). In an archeological mode as defined by Ruth Levitas the book “(ap)art-Visual Art and Utopia” is examining four different utopian strategies in the art context (contemporary outopia, contemplative utopia, activism without utopian mental picture, retopia) and re-contextualizes the quest for utopia in the globalized environment.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with (ap)art- Contemporary Art and Utopia. To get started finding (ap)art- Contemporary Art and Utopia, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 164

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Aalto University

Release: 2015

ISBN: 9526063783

Description: In 1516 Thomas More wrote Utopia. His book depicted the journey of Raphael Hythloday to an island where he found a society without social injustice, inequality and kleptocracy. It was a catalyst not only for a new genre in literature but gave important impulses in the struggles for political emancipation that would define modernity. More’s book can be read as an antidote to the Enclosure Acts in his home country England that dispossessed farmers, abandoned ideas of the commons and established laws that would create the foundations for early capitalism. In the aftermath of More’s book the concept of utopia became eponymous for the need to find solutions for organizing a more egalitariansociety under conditions of scarce resources.In the 19th century utopian socialists attempted to put these schemes into reality by establishing intentional communities. Later the artistic avant-garde of the 1920s explicitly adopted utopian strategies to subvert the status quo. The totalitarian regimes of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin lead to a paradigmatic shift on utopianism. In the aftermath of World War II utopian thinking was linked to totalitarianism and even a short flare-up of utopian energies in 1968 did not fundamentally change that perception. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the “end of history” that Francis Fukuyama proclaimed was also, in Joachim Fest’s words, “the end of utopia”. But the contradictions of the new status quo led to a reemergence of utopian thinking in the art world that had its first major manifestation at the Venice Biennale in 2003 with the Utopia Station. The upsurge of demand for new ways of organizing society was amplified by the 2008 economic crisis. With a multitude of exhibitions, artists using utopian concepts and curators that areinspired by it a conceptual clarification of what is utopian in the 21st century is of critical importance, and not only in the context of contemporary art. Leaving the pejorative colloquial uses of utopia aside, what is Utopia today? Thomas More himself created an ambiguity with his neologism “utopia”, which is a composite word of the old Greek words “outopia” (no-place) and “eutopia” (good place). In an archeological mode as defined by Ruth Levitas the book “(ap)art-Visual Art and Utopia” is examining four different utopian strategies in the art context (contemporary outopia, contemplative utopia, activism without utopian mental picture, retopia) and re-contextualizes the quest for utopia in the globalized environment.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with (ap)art- Contemporary Art and Utopia. To get started finding (ap)art- Contemporary Art and Utopia, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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