{"product_id":"art-in-the-after-culture-capitalist-crisis-and-cultural-strategy-paperback","title":"Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBen Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This kaleidoscopic collection will help you see and comprehend the world anew--which is, in my book, what good art should do.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Astra Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is a scary and disorienting time for art, as it is a scary and disorienting time in general.\u003c\/strong\u003e Aesthetic experience is both overshadowed by the spectacle of current events and pressed into new connection with them. The self-image of art as a social good is collapsing under the weight of capitalism's dysfunction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these incisive essays, art critic Ben Davis makes sense of our extreme present as an emerging \"after-culture\"--a culture whose forms and functions are being radically reshaped by cataclysmic events. In the face of catastrophe, he holds out hope that reckoning with the new realities of art, technology, activism, and the media, can help us weather the super-storms of the future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Davis has been \u003cem\u003eartnet\u003c\/em\u003e News's National Art Critic since 2016. He is the author of \u003cem\u003e9.5 Theses on Art and Class\u003c\/em\u003e, and was an editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Elements of Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e, which began as the catalogue to the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennial. Recent essays have appeared in the books \u003cem\u003ePublic Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Future of Public Space\u003c\/em\u003e. His writings have been featured in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSlate\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAdbusters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ee-Flux Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFrieze\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other venues. In 2019, Harvard 's Nieman Journalism Lab reported that he was one of the five most influential art critics in the United States, and the only one to write for an online publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 180\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53738438656364,"sku":"9781642594621","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/3019\/6844\/files\/7f88ae538c07b97aa7178643d7ccdb92_d1d1cacf-b142-45d0-a0ba-5bf0fdc50cb2.webp?v=1778435952","url":"https:\/\/pattansenterprise.com\/products\/art-in-the-after-culture-capitalist-crisis-and-cultural-strategy-paperback","provider":"Pattansenterprise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}