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Ethics of alterity, confrontation and responsability in 19th to 21st century British arts

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Format : Broché
Nb de pages : 282 pages
Poids : 520 g
Dimensions : 16cm X 24cm
ISBN : 978-2-36781-176-5
EAN : 9782367811765

Ethics of alterity, confrontation and responsability in 19th to 21st century British arts


Collection(s) | Horizons anglophones
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Broché 282 pages

Quatrième de couverture

Various art forms inscribe, program or perform the preference of relationship. In so doing, they put otherness high on their aesthetic agenda by caring about the cultural other, the other of gender, race, class or history. Such art forms from different periods promote a mode of sensibility to the other, whether the foreign or the invisible , or both, in their various manifestations. Sensibility to otherness is envisaged through the means of strident or humble art-forms and aesthetic choices, from the overtly experimental, to subdued adaptation. In confronting and welcoming the other art object, the other culture, or the othered citizen, art objects to the tyranny of the same and promotes such values as attentiveness, responsiveness and responsibility to forms of otherness, i.e. to the ways in which art cares about, or even takes care of the other. This implies the practice of an ethic of alterity (as distinct from the formulation of general rules) that is accountable for making the spectator or listener pay attention to social, economic and cultural invisibilities. Such an ethic of alterity joins hands with the political and may help chart the evolution of the objects and forms of engagement from the Victorian period to the present.

Biographie

Jean-Michel Ganteau and Christine Reynier are Professors of English Literature at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France. They are co-editors of the Present Perfect series at the Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée.

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