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THE PHILISTINE CONTROVERSY
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| By: |
Dave Beech, John Roberts |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£40.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1859848427 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781859848425 |
| Publisher: |
VERSO BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
8 May, 2002 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Conventionally, the Philistine is assumed to have no value for art and culture, but in this re-evaluation, the authors address the Philistine not as an empirical phenomenon - but as a relational category that operates between art and anti-art and aesthetics and anti-aesthetics. |
| Synopsis: |
Conventionally, the Philistine is assumed to have no value for art and culture, but in this re-evaluation of its excluded identity, the authors address the philistine not as an empirical phenomenon, but as a relational category that operates between art and anti-art, aesthetics and anti-aesthetics, arguing that the Philistine cuts to the core of the predicament of art in a divided culture. The authors develop what they call a "counter-intuitive" notion of the Philistine, claiming that what the Philistine tells us about cultural division and exclusion is more persuasive than the theories of the popular and the "otherly-cultured" in cultural studies and postmodernism. They contest that the "counter-intuitive" Philistine returns the cultural debate to the problems of the persistence of poser, privilege and symbolic violence. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Verso Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |