After the Great Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Difficulties

by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

A Western Marxist reading of contemporary art, focusing on the question of the continued presence (or absence) of the avant-garde’s transgressive impulse.

Taking art’s ability to contribute to radical social transformation as its point of departure, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen's new title from Zero Books analyses the relationship between the current neoliberal hegemony and contemporary art, including relational aesthetics and interventionist art, new institutionalism and post-modern architecture.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction

160 pages, Paperback

Published September 28, 2018

About the author

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen is an art historian and theorists working on the politics and history of the avant-garde, the politics of contemporary art and the revolutionary tradition. He is associate professor at the University of Copenhagen.

Reviews

[Mitchell Chatfield · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably closer to 3.5 than a 3

*WRAP UP THOUGHTS COMING*