Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Antonio Negri, Formerly Professor of State Theory, Padua UniversityTranslated by Ed Emery
Negri then seeks to define artistic beauty in this new era, and this he does in terms of concepts that have become fundamental to his thinking - singularity, multitude, abstraction, collective work, event, the biopolitical, the common. Art is living labour, and therefore invention of singularity, of singular figures and objects. But this expressive act only achieves beauty when the signs and language through which it expresses itself turn themselves into community, when they are contained within a common project. The beautiful is not the act of imagining, but an imagination that has become action. Art, in this sense, is multitude.
Author's Introduction
Letter to Gianmarco on the abstract
Letter to Carlo on the postmodern
Letter to Giorgio on the sublime
Letter to Manfredo on collective work
Letter to Massimo on beauty
Letter to Nanni on constructing
Letter to Silvano on the event
Letter to Raul on the body
Letter to Marie-Magdeleine on the biopolitical
Metamorphoses: Art and immaterial labour
Negri then seeks to define artistic beauty in this new era, and this he does in terms of concepts that have become fundamental to his thinking - singularity, multitude, abstraction, collective work, event, the biopolitical, the common. Art is living labour, and therefore invention of singularity, of singular figures and objects. But this expressive act only achieves beauty when the signs and language through which it expresses itself turn themselves into community, when they are contained within a common project. The beautiful is not the act of imagining, but an imagination that has become action. Art, in this sense, is multitude.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Antonio Negri, Formerly Professor of State Theory, Padua UniversityTranslated by Ed Emery