{"id":581,"date":"2013-07-18T15:37:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=581"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:59:45","slug":"artpolitik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"Artpolitik"},"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><b>Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation<br \/>\n<\/b>Neala Schleuning<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>Artpolitik<\/i> examines the relationship between art and politics, focusing on radical political aesthetics in western culture since the end of the nineteenth century.\u00a0 Drawing from Surrealism, Socialist Realism, the Situationist International, capitalist consumer aesthetics, and critical theory, Neala Schleuning elaborates a social anarchist approach to aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>Artpolitik <\/i>is not a history of radical art production but an exploration of the core ideas inspiring radical art. This provocative book is guaranteed to both challenge and inform, reframing radical aesthetics for the challenges of the present. It features an exploration of ideas and techniques employed by artists for more effective communication of radical political ideas. Art has played a central role in revolutionary change throughout history, and our own times call for a revitalization of art in the service of liberatory politics.\u00a0 This book is an effort to understand how new ideas seeking to position themselves <i>vis a vis<\/i> the aesthetic tradition while simultaneously reflecting the transformation of political and social movement cultures in new directions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u201c<i>Artpolitik <\/i>can be the basis of fruitful discussions among artists and activists alike about the role, character and communicative value of art in our struggle for a better world. Each period of artistic expression she analyzes, and specifically those that were consciously political, prod us to think about and rethink today\u2019s art through these lenses.\u201d \u2013 Wayne Nealis<\/p>\n<p><b>Bio:<\/b> Neala Schleuning is a writer and educator. She received her PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1978 with an emphasis in political philosophy and intellectual history.\u00a0 Fulbright Scholar to the Russian Federation, she is the author of many articles, higher education policy papers, films and radio productions, and several books, including <i>America: Song We Sang Without Knowing<\/i> (1983); <i>Idle Hands and Empty Hearts: Work and Freedom in the United States<\/i> (1990); <i>Women, Community, and the Hormel Strike of 1985-86<\/i> (1994); and <i>To Have and to Hold: the Meaning of Ownership in the United States<\/i> (1997).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/154502940\/Artpolitik-Social-Anarchist-Aesthetics-in-an-Age-of-Fragmentation\">Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation<\/a> by <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Minor Compositions's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/MinorCompositions\">Minor Compositions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ordering Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"paypal-container-VVNFMBJEVM6B6\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  paypal.HostedButtons({\n    hostedButtonId: \"VVNFMBJEVM6B6\",\n  }).render(\"#paypal-container-VVNFMBJEVM6B6\")\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Official release to the book trade in Fall 2013.<br \/>\nAvailable direct from Minor Compositions for the special price of \u00a310 + shipping.<\/p>\n<p>You can also download it here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/artpolitik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artpolitik<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>330 pages, 5.5 x 8.5<br \/>\nUK: \u00a318 \/ US: $24<br \/>\nISBN 978-1-57027-248-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation Neala Schleuning \u00a0Artpolitik examines the relationship between art and politics, focusing on radical political aesthetics in western culture since the end of the nineteenth century.\u00a0 Drawing from Surrealism, Socialist Realism, the Situationist International, capitalist consumer aesthetics, and critical theory, Neala Schleuning elaborates a social anarchist approach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}