Ebook: The Future of the Image

The future of the image -- Sentence, image, history -- Painting in the text -- The surface of design -- Are some things unrepresentable?;In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. He argues that there is a stark political choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Rancière there is never a pure art: the aesthetic revolution must always embrace egalitarian ideals.