Transgressions The Offences of Art /anglais - Hardcover

JULIUS ANTHONY

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500237999 ISBN 13: 9780500237991

Publisher: THAMES HUDSON, 2002

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Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub Date: October 2002 Pages: 272 in Publisher: Thames & Hudson Since the mid-19th century artists have compulsively rejected received ideas in order to test and subvert technological morality . law. society. art itself. But what happens when all boundaries have been crossed. all taboos oken. all limits violated Transgressions addresses this controversial subject. Anthony Julius traces its history from the outraged response to Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe to the scandal caused by the Royal Academy's Sensation exhibition a century-and-a-half later. Throughout the book. supported by the work of such artists as Marcel Duchamp. the Chapman others. Andres Serrano. Damien Hirst. Gilbert & George. Paul McCarthy. Jeff Koons. Hans Haacke and Anselm Kiefer. Julius shows how the modern period has been characterized by three kinds of transgressive art: an ...

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Since the mid-nineteenth century, artists have compulsively rejected received ideas in order to test and subvert morality, law, society, and even art itself. But what happens when all boundaries have been crossed, all taboos broken, all limits violated?

Transgressions is the first book to address this controversial subject. Here Anthony Julius traces the history of subversion in art from the outraged response to Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe to the scandal caused by the grant programs of the National Endowment for the Arts a century and a half later. Throughout the book, and supported by the work of such artists as Marcel Duchamp, the Chapman brothers, Andres Serrano, Damien Hirst, Gilbert & George, Paul McCarthy, Jeff Koons, Hans Haacke, and Anselm Kiefer, Julius shows how the modern period has been characterized by three kinds of transgressive art: an art that perverts established art rules; an art that defiles the beliefs and sentiments of its audience; and an art that challenges and disobeys the rules of the state.

The evidence assembled, Julius concludes his hard-hitting dissection of the landscapes of contemporary art by posing some important questions: what is art's future when its boundary-exceeding, taboo-breaking endeavors become the norm? And is anything of value lost when we submit to art's violation?

Transgressions is not a comfortable—still less a comforting—read, but it has a powerful urgency that makes it an essential document for anyone involved in our cultural life at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

About the Author:

Anthony Julius, the eminent lawyer, writer and lecturer, has been described as a partisan with fierce integrity, a brilliant legal mind, a considerable critic, and a worldly philosopher who relishes disturbing the consensus. His previous books, T.S. Eliot: Anti-Semitism and Literary Form and Idolizing Pictures, were published to great acclaim and controversy.

About this edition

• Publisher: THAMES HUDSON
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0500237999
• ISBN 13: 9780500237991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272