Transgresiuni. Ofense ale artei

by Anthony Julius, Tania Şiperco (Translator)

Jumătatea secolului al XIX-lea... Revolta artei începe, canoanele academice sunt aruncate în aer. Tot mai mulţi artişti resping ideile preconcepute, subminează moralitatea şi legea, în încercarea de a trece dincolo de frontierele acceptate ale artei.

În Transgresiuni. Ofensele artei Anthony Julius trasează istoria revoltei împotriva canoanelor artistice academice, începând de la Dejunul pe iarbă, a lui Manet, până la scandalul cauzat de expoziţia Senzaţie a Academiei Regale, un secol şi jumătate mai târziu. Discutând lucrări de Andres Serrano, Damien Hirst, Gilbert şi George, Paul McCarthy, Jeff Koons, Hans Haacke şi Anselm Kiefer, Julius identifică trei tipuri de transgresiuni artistice caracteristice modernităţii: pervertirea regulilor artistice, profanarea credinţelor şi a sentimentelor publicului şi revolta împotriva normelor sociale şi politice.


Anthony Julius, eminent avocat, scriitor şi conferenţiar, este recunoscut drept o minte juridică sclipitoare, un critic de o integritate implacabilă şi un filozof important, căruia îi place să tulbure consensul. Cărţile sale anterioare, T.S. Eliot: Antisemitism şi formă literară şi Imagini idolizatoare, au fost primite cu laude, stârnind în acelaşi timp controverse în lumea artei.


Numar de pagini: 272

Hardcover, Ilustraţii color

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Art History

272 pages, Hardcover

First published October 14, 2002

About the author

Anthony Julius (born 1956) is a prominent British lawyer and academic, best known for his actions on behalf of Diana, Princess of Wales and Deborah Lipstadt. He is a senior consultant for the London law firm Mishcon de Reya.

Julius is known for his opposition to new antisemitism, the alleged expression of antisemitic prejudice couched in terms of criticism of Israel, and gives frequent talks on the subject all over the world to raise awareness. He is a founding member of both Engage and the Euston Manifesto.

He is a son of a successful London textile merchant, educated at the City of London School. His father died young of a brain tumour. Julius studied English literature at Jesus College, Cambridge graduating in 1977 with a first class degree and completed a Ph.D. in English literature at University College London under the novelist and academic Dan Jacobson. He joined Mishcon de Reya, a Bloomsbury law firm in 1981 becoming a partner in 1984. Currently he is a senior consultant to that firm.

He married in 1979 and had four children with his first wife (Max, Laura, Chloë and Theo). In 1999, following his divorce, he married journalist Dina Rabinovitch who died in 2007. They have one son together (Elon). He remarried in July 2009.

Reviews

[Francis Jarman · Rating 3 out of 5]

A dense, intellectually dazzling, complexly argued book. Not an easy read! My main reservation about Transgressions is the material that Julius describes and defends (and much of which is illustrated). Like the child who sees the Emperor in his "new clothes", you feel tempted to shout out "This is crap!" - which occasionally the "works of art" literally are (Gilbert & George, Chris Ofili, Piero Manzoni), though that doesn't stop collectors and public galleries from spending small fortunes to acquire them. O tempora o mores.
Since I'm currently writing an article on a related theme, I'll leave my comments at that for the moment.

[Abraham · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting, dense book on the fashions of making art while exceeding scholar, social and political boundaries, a praxis that has come to the foreground in modern and contemporary art. Highly recommended to better understand not only this but the evolution of art aesthetics and our responses to them.

[Laura-Diana]

This reads like a very pretentious textbook. It was extremely dense and I was not impressed.

[Matthew · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a really great resource to defend controversial art. Also, the picture of Bruce Nauman on the cover is pretty hot.