{"id":1333,"date":"2024-07-18T12:44:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T12:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:58:56","slug":"aesthetic-protest-cultures-after-the-avant-garde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1333","title":{"rendered":"Aesthetic Protest Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/sdk\/js?client-id=BAAZVqDzpOe4wiR8CaLD_oJEvsW8k_r43j2m8f0nPZpK9MqpD3c_nCgZ1_fgqtEOiF3kkO3be21V5NnwRU&#038;components=hosted-buttons&#038;disable-funding=venmo&#038;currency=GBP\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Aesthetic Protest Cultures: After the Avant-Garde<br \/>\n<\/strong>Edited by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The avant-garde is dead\u2026 long live the avant-garde<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Aesthetic Protest Cultures: After the Avant-Garde<\/em> offers a new way of analysing and theorizing the question of the avant-garde today. It is customary within art history and cultural history to argue that the avant-garde disappeared as an (anti)artistic gesture during the 1960s. The dissolution of the Situationist International in 1972 is often presented as the endpoint in the history of the avant-garde. The implosion of the \u201968 revolt \u2013 quickly in France, after a long process of revolt and counter-revolt in countries like Italy \u2013 effectively ended the attempt to use art as a vehicle for a transformation of capitalist society. This book contributes to the discussion of the avant-garde today by discussing whether it is still relevant for a contemporary anti-systemic critique and analysing different instances where the avant-garde has creeped into protests and social experiments outside art and art institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Includes essays from Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Esther Leslie, Abigail Susik, Natasha Gasparian, Marina Vishmidt, Yves Citton, and Gene Ray<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Bio:<\/strong> Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen is Professor in Political Aesthetics at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of <em>Playmates and Playboys at a Higher Level: J.V. Martin and the Situationist International <\/em>(2014), <em>Crisis to Insurrection <\/em>(2015), <em>After the Great Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Difficulties<\/em> (2018), <em>Trump\u2019s Counter-Revolution <\/em>(2018), <em>Hegel after Occupy<\/em> (2018) and <em>Late Capitalist Fascism <\/em>(2022).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ordering Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"paypal-container-RGETST9KANW3N\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  paypal.HostedButtons({\n    hostedButtonId: \"RGETST9KANW3N\",\n  }).render(\"#paypal-container-RGETST9KANW3N\")\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Available direct from Minor Compositions for the special price of \u00a310 + shipping.<\/p>\n<p>For ordering in the US or Canada it can be purchased from AK Press or Autonomedia.<\/p>\n<p>You can also download it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/aestheticprotestcultures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-1335\">Aesthetic Protest Cultures<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">224 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, paperback<br \/>\nUK: \u00a318\/ US: $23<br \/>\nISBN 978-1-57027-452-7<br \/>\nRelease to the book trade 30 November 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aesthetic Protest Cultures: After the Avant-Garde Edited by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen The avant-garde is dead\u2026 long live the avant-garde Aesthetic Protest Cultures: After the Avant-Garde offers a new way of analysing and theorizing the question of the avant-garde today. 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