The aesthetic exception critically re-evaluates the relation between art and politics by challenging longstanding assumptions surrounding political ‘effect’ in art and the problem of art’s autonomous status. Drawing on examples from visual art and theatre, it offers a new approach based on a conjunctural understanding of how art becomes political. -- .
The aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics. It challenges critical trends that discount the role of aesthetic autonomy, to impulsively reassert art as an effective form of social engagement. But it equally challenges those on the flipside of the efficacy debate, who insist that arts politics is limited to a recondite space of autonomous resistance. The book shows how each side of the efficacy debate overlooks arts exceptional status and its social mediations. Mobilising philosophy and cultural theory, and employing examples from visual art, performance, and theatre, it proposes four alternative tests to effect to offer a nuanced account of arts political character. Those tests examine how art relates to politics as a practice that articulates its historical conjuncture, and how it prefigures the new through simulations capable of activating the political life of the spectator.
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