What's the use?
Nick Aikens
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What's the use?
by Nick Aikens, Lange, Thomas, Jorinde Seijdel
Published
2016
Publisher
Valiz
Pages
504
ISBN-13
9789492095121
ISBN-10
9492095122
Description
Is art only art insofar as it refuses to be useful? At a moment when the boundaries between public and private have been radically redrawn--politically, economically and culturally--how do we understand art's ability to know the world, to develop our ethics, to express our sense of historical belonging and to be, in different ways to different people, useful? What's the Use? takes as a starting point the premise that art is best understood in dialogue with the social sphere, and examines how the exchange between art, knowledge and use has historically been set up and played out. Propositional and speculative--and deliberately inconclusive--the theorists and artists included in this volume seek an answer to a familiar question: how can art know, and change, the world?
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This edition of What's the use? has approximately 504 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
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For most readers, What's the use? typically takes between 10h 30m and 7h 0m to complete. This is based on the book's length of approximately 126,000 words and common reading speeds.
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Who is the author of What's the use??
What's the use? was written by Nick Aikens, Lange, Thomas, Jorinde Seijdel.
When was What's the use? published?
The publication date for this specific edition is 2016. The original work may have been published on a different date.