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The Emancipated Spectator
The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance.In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Ranciere takes a radically different approach to this attempte...more
Hardcover, 134 pages
Published
August 3rd 2009
by Verso
(first published January 1st 2008)
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This book is a set of five essays in response to Ranciere’s earlier work “The Ignorant Schoolmaster.” All of these pieces are tied together by Ranciere’s attempt to overcome the dyad so often associated with modernist aesthetics of passive spectator/active seer. The title essay extends the concept set forth in “The Ignorant Schoolmaster” by suggesting that the knowledge gap between the educated teacher and the student should be given up in place for an “equality of knowledge.” The goal of thi...more
Recueil de textes assez disparates sur la capacité d'absorption et de digestion de l'art sous toutes ses formes par le spectateur.
Rancière s'inscrit contre l'idée d’un spectateur dépourvu d’un pouvoir de discernement et d'une capacité d'action. « Etre spectateur n'est pas une condition passive qu'il nous faudrait changer en activité mais bien notre situation normale. Tout spectateur est déjà acteur de son histoire ». Rancière évoque dès lors un spectateur affranchi ; protagoniste et interprète ...more
Rancière s'inscrit contre l'idée d’un spectateur dépourvu d’un pouvoir de discernement et d'une capacité d'action. « Etre spectateur n'est pas une condition passive qu'il nous faudrait changer en activité mais bien notre situation normale. Tout spectateur est déjà acteur de son histoire ». Rancière évoque dès lors un spectateur affranchi ; protagoniste et interprète ...more
This was a pretty dense bite of theory for such a small book, but I really appreciated the things I came out of it with: an increased appreciation for the agency of the spectator, a rhetoric and terminology to argue for active spectatorship, and some solutions to my guilt-laden relationships with hyper-political art.
This text is difficult, but I think I can excuse its difficulty because the premise of the text is that art and spectatorship are made up of moments of tension, incomprehe...more
This text is difficult, but I think I can excuse its difficulty because the premise of the text is that art and spectatorship are made up of moments of tension, incomprehe...more
A fascinating take on spectatorship and the image. The strongest essay in this collection is its opening (and title) essay which examines the relationship of the spectator to his/her community and suggests (strongly) that there are not different forms of spectatorship, only equal rights of spectatorship. Reminiscent of Freire. The later essays take to task Barthes while relying on DeLeuze and others in support of appreciating modern image making as an evolution rather than a repudiation of im...more
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Earlier this year I went to a conference in Lisbon in which Jacques Rancière and Hans Belting discussed various problematics regarding the image. Despite having unfortunately chosen a seat next to a gentleman who kept falling asleep and loudly snoring, I enjoyed the talk, and was intrigued enough to delve into Jacques Rancière’s work (I was already familiar with Hans Belting’s).
The author has some thought-provoking ideas, and he writes in such a cle...more
Earlier this year I went to a conference in Lisbon in which Jacques Rancière and Hans Belting discussed various problematics regarding the image. Despite having unfortunately chosen a seat next to a gentleman who kept falling asleep and loudly snoring, I enjoyed the talk, and was intrigued enough to delve into Jacques Rancière’s work (I was already familiar with Hans Belting’s).
The author has some thought-provoking ideas, and he writes in such a cle...more
Much to say about this one. I read it for class last semester and I got really into it, especially when it seemed like Ranciere was approaching the conclusions which seeemed to be not quite as clearly articulated as they might have been.
I'll add my thoughts later...some very very compelling, unique, and provocative thinking in this little book.
Chapter 2 - The Misadventures of Critical Thought presented an excellent challenge to what I thought I knew/understood. Liked Jacques Ranciere -- enough to order a second book by him from amazon.com
serias y profundas reflexiones en torno al arte contemporáneo y lo pretencioso de algunas de sus premisas, que además se anulan.
Absolutamente genial.
Not really a book. But a great read. A refreshing corrective to the discourses in philosophical aesthetics discussions that problematize the viewer/viewed, audience/performer distinction.
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