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Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art Hardcover – June 4, 2013

by Jacques Ranciere (Author), Zakir Paul (Translator)
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Composed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis–Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic–takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelmann, accompany Hegel to the museum and Mallarmé to the Folies-Bergère, attend a lecture by Emerson, visit exhibitions in Paris and New York, factories in Berlin, and film sets in Moscow and Hollywood. Rancière uses these sites and events—some famous, others forgotten—to ask what becomes art and what comes of it. He shows how a regime of artistic perception and interpretation was constituted and transformed by erasing the specificities of the different arts, as well as the borders that separated them from ordinary experience. This incisive study provides a history of artistic modernity far removed from the conventional postures of modernism.
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“Jacques Rancière’s Aisthesis transforms the field of aesthetic philosophy.”—Libération

“French philosopher Jacques Rancière is a refreshing read for anyone concerned with what art has to do with politics and society.”—Art Review

“In the face of impossible attempts to proceed with progressive ideas within the terms of postmodernist discourse, Rancière shows a way out of the malaise.”—Liam Gillick

“It’s clear that Jacques Rancière is relighting the flame that was extinguished for many—that is why he serves as such a signal reference today.”—Thomas Hirschhorn

“Far from the grand narratives of modernism that claim the language of art progresses in the search for purity ... modernity breaks down the hierarchy between spheres of culture, disturbing the boundaries between art and life ... [Rancière] analyzes a series of moments from this other history that could only be written in proliferating fragments ... this aesthetic ‘regime’ conditions the forms of art and democracy in an era of the permanent emergence of new sovereign subjects.”—Le Monde

“Since The Division of the Sensible ... Rancière has been reminding those who would separate the wheat from the chaff in contemporary creative practices that art only exists as an unstable boundary that must be continually crossed. In Aisthesis the philosopher develops his thinking, drawing fifteen scenes of a counter-history of artistic modernity.”—Le Magazine Littéraire

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Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People, and The Emancipated Spectator.

Zakir Paul is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Princeton University. He most recently translated a collection of Blanchot’s political writings.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Verso; 1st edition (June 4, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1781680892
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1781680896
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.33 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.38 x 1.07 x 9.43 inches
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Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Future of the Image, and The Nights of Labor.

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Mihal Ceittin
5.0 out of 5 stars The New Wave in French Intellectuals
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2013
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If you like the French style of thinking and writing Ranciere is your man. Erudite, understated but brash in intent and impact he makes the case for the essential intersections between art, media and politics better than anyone since Debord. Not for the theory averse or fans of Henri-Levy.or Alain de Botton. Ranciere is the real deal......l.
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Chris
5.0 out of 5 stars unusual way to discuss aesthetics; each chapter is about ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2016
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unusual way to discuss aesthetics; each chapter is about different issues, as comes up in the piece of art he discusses, e.g. the Greek classical torso-only sculpture, Charlie Chaplin films, Ibsen's THE MASTER BUILDER

difficult, but intriguing
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robert, balthazar
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2015
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un peu broullion quand meme
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2016
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scarecrow
5.0 out of 5 stars working toward the Light,Lumieres. .
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2014
Ranciere surveys the fault-lines of how the'' aesthetic'' responds to things,in history, in war, in poverty, in capitalism; domains, dimensions much larger than itself.It is like a pennyless child outside a candy-store, waiting. . . .

How boundaries become blurred,re-done; on how expression comes to be shaped and given form. . .
I was fascinated by the structure of the book,given all the "moby-dick" size treatise we have already; Adorno, Lukacs and Hegel, and Kant, and Goethe, and Jameson; This is breath of fresh air. . . .
Here a more modest ambition is promuligated/advanced with examples; "screens","tableaux"--The book revolves round a series of 14 descriptions of those "moments" that came to redefine where the "aesthetic" is, was, what is it doing, How is it behaving, is the aesthetic oppressed, in shock, in freedom,emancipation, in darkness. . ...in development.

We come to the fault-lines of the high haute-aesthetic,. . those developed in Europa till modernity then by the New York cadre of Abstract Expressionists and their theoretical persona, first at the budding stages; seminal essays of Greenberg, and Rosenberg's on-going'' New Yorker'' essays- - much later of course,Clark, Lippard,Ashton,Varnedoe. . .
In modernity Ranciere claims we come to seek "landmarks","Notes from the Underground", a "Rite of Spring" an "Olympia", a "White on White" ,OK leave that alone, we know those moments,we come to be blinded by them, commissioning agencies have them on their corporate desks eternally---But Ranciere's radical nature avoids this, going off in his own search for "fault lines".

If you've read Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical reproduction"this work resounds with it where both authors saw a new "accomodation" for the lower classes,and hide their marxism as best they can--- as Hegel's "godlike absence", care and concern for the dispossessed,who is watching the school, the corner store for the great unwashed. . .this now is on the agenda for where the aesthetic goes as Chaplin's modernity or jazz popular music, as the Big Band Era that helped the War effort,made every GI sing a song,or dance to it," get yer feet a hoppin".All in the moments of WW2 we see the care for those in rags, the ragged, as Murillo's urchins. .
Ranciere sees the "schools" of art as this institutionalization, the structure imposed, similar to Foucault's work from another direction. ,Here then we have a probe a search for those things we miss, or avoid, or are preoccupied with other consumerists domains.How the very nature of Art changes, how politics aestheticizes the terrain, the domains of Art, internalizes it,,marries it, corrupts it;
Art has always been about movement, motion ,libidinal forms,even in Wagner you sense the "libidinal" within the timbre of the strings,the seductive voice-ings "stimmung" in the horns--- it is there waiting to be exploited----This motion is what we need to analyze--Art moments going forward by themselves. It is curious if Art is ever of itself, with itself, or in eternal servitude---, ascending from something ,We trek toward the Light, LICHT, Illuminismo, Lumieres,Aufklarung-----.and you find it herein buried in these essays. . ..
I like the description of how things evolve within this domain, as the raised females---they tease,at the gaze "regards",the Folles Bergeres; dance spangled dress is like the "flowers" now come to life from the staid place of French Impressionism,.But he also has a prize for the poor, his voice seems to be always with them,
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Morgan S. Craig
5.0 out of 5 stars An erudite exploration of the evolution of aesthetics from the ...
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2018
An erudite exploration of the evolution of aesthetics from the time surrounding the fin de siecle, until the mid part of the twentieth century. I found Ranciere's examples to be both odd and enchanting. While it is a challenging read, the denouement will leave you satiated.
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Melis Ugurlu
2.0 out of 5 stars The spine has melted and pages falling apart
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 2, 2021
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This is the first page of the book, as I started reading, after 5 minutes under the London sun, I saw that the glue that holds together the spine is melting and the pages were already falling apart. I am not sure if this is a faulty copy that I received or they are all like that. But I would of course like a replacement.
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2.0 out of 5 stars The spine has melted and pages falling apart
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 2, 2021
This is the first page of the book, as I started reading, after 5 minutes under the London sun, I saw that the glue that holds together the spine is melting and the pages were already falling apart. I am not sure if this is a faulty copy that I received or they are all like that. But I would of course like a replacement.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lively and cogent argument about the links between aesthetics and 'politics' writ large
Reviewed in Canada on November 30, 2015
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Well, I'm part way through, but this book has exceeded my expectations already. Ranciere lays out his theory of the 'aesthetic regime' of art in a series of lively vignettes tracing the history of this political aesthetic to its Enlightenment origins.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Genial
Reviewed in Spain on May 25, 2016
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¡Cómo se originó el arte contemporáneo (el régimen estético del arte) a partir del arte moderno (el régimen representativo del arte). Aquí está la respuesta aunque R no quiera presentarlo sino como momentos privilegiados de la historia de la estética. Imprescindible para docentes.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2015
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