Jonsson, S: A Brief History of the Masses Three Revolutions
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
06.08.2008
Verlag
University Press GroupSeitenzahl
248
Maße (L/B/H)
23.7/16.4/2.5 cm
Gewicht
495 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-231-14526-8
Through a close reading of three monumental works of art& mdash;Jacques-Louis David's The Tennis Court Oath (1791), James Ensor's Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (1888), and Alfredo Jaar's They Loved It So Much, the Revolution (1989)& mdash;Stefan Jonsson launches a unique investigation into an age-old dilemma: How do artists fashion a truthful representation of "the people"? Addressing, respectively, The French Revolution of 1789, Belgium's proletarian messianism in the 1880s, and Eastern Europe's Velvet Revolutions of 1989, these works depict not only an alternative view of history, Jonsson argues, but capture the very essence of democracy.
Drawing on examples from literature, politics, philosophy, and additional pieces of art, Jonsson's research reveals surprising parallels between the people's political representation (in government) and their aesthetic representation (in painting). Both essentially "frame" the people, defining them as elites or masses, responsible citizens or angry mobs. Yet in the aesthetic fantasies of David, Ensor, and Jaar, Jonsson finds a different understanding of democracy-one in which human collectives are able to break the frame and enter the picture. A Brief History of the Masses is at once a cultural history and a contemporary discussion about the fate of democracy in our globalized world. Jonsson connects the achievements and failures of past revolutions to current political issues and situates our present moment in a long historical drama of popular unrest.
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