Publisher's Synopsis
Lauded by major contemporary artists and philosophers, Jacques Ranci�re's work returns politics to its central place in understanding art.
In The Future of the Image,Jacques Ranci�re develops a fascinating new concept of the image incontemporary art, showing how art and politics have always beenintrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, filmmakers such as Godard and Bresson, andthinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard andGreenberg, Ranci�re shows that contemporary theorists of the image aresuffering from religious tendencies.
He argues that there is a starkpolitical choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy,or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Ranci�re there is never apure art: the aesthetic revolution must always embrace egalitarianideals.
