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E-flux journalGoing Public

Boris Groys - E-flux journal
As the first in the series of e-flux journal readers to be written by a single author, Going Public brings together a collection of influential essays by Boris Groys.
If all things in the world can be considered as sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Following his recent books Art Power and The Communist Postscript, in Going Public Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art—which always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.
German philosopher, essayist, art critic and media theorist Boris Groys (born 1947 in East Berlin) teaches at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. His works oriented towards modern and contemporary art develop a reflection on modernity, postmodernity and the question of the subject.
Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle.

Design by Jeff Ramsey, cover design by Liam Gillick.
 
published in November 2010
English edition
10,8 x 17,8 cm (softcover)
168 pages (9 b/w ill.)
 
ISBN : 978-1-934105-30-6
EAN : 9781934105306
 
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