Writings on Art and Politics, 9781350457843
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Art or garbage? Immortality, politics, and the struggle for recognition.
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Writings on Art and Politics

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    240 pages

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    1 April 2026

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Summary

Art or Garbage: Essays on Aesthetics, Politics, and Immortality

To the philosopher Boris Groys, everything technology produces in the modern world ultimately falls into two categories – either it’s art, or it’s garbage. Both are useless, defunctionalized objects that simply… lie there. The difference between them comes when we immunize art from the destructive power of time to which we devoutly deliver our garbage. In this collection of essays and interviews, Groys …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781350457843
ISBN-10:1350457841
Author:Boris Groys, Dr Marcus Hurwitz
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:1 April 2026
Weight:0g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm
About The Author

Boris Groys

Marcus Hurwitz is a philosopher, art critic, and writer whose work engages with the historical avant-garde, Moscow Conceptualism, and installation art alongside contemporary French, German, and Russian philosophy.

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