This book studies the tension between arts and politics in four contemporary artists from different countries, working with different media. The film directors
The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques
In the West, "the Left," understood as a loose conglomeration of interests centered around the goal of a fairer and more equal society, still struggles to make
Civil society around the world is increasingly dealing with global questions, whereby it also begins to assume transnational forms of organisation. The arts, wi
Public space is political space. When a work of public art is put up or taken down, it is an inherently political statement, and the work’s aesthetics are ine