Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction

Part One: Avant-Gardes
1. Signed In Red. The First Avant-Garde
2. Blue Voids. The Modernist Avant-Garde And The Permanence Of Art

Part Two: Theories and Critiques
3. Society as a Work of Art?
4. States of Exception
5. Saying The Unsayable

Part Three: Critical Practices
6. After The Statues
7. Exhibiting Dissent
8. Revolution is Sublime
9. Beauty is Convulsive

Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

An exploration of the history and contemporary expressions of art for social change and a lively and comprehensive excursion into how political aesthetics is central to how we live today.

About the Author

Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth, UK. He is the author of Art, Space and the City (1997), Urban Avant-Gardes (2004), Cities and Cultures (2007), and Urban Utopias (2008), Herbert Marcuse: an Aesthetics of Liberation (2011), Eco-Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Limits to Culture (2015).