Autonomy in Art
A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 2011
Special Issue Editor
Interests: autonomy; art; politics; theoretical and historical practice upon critical theory; the aesthetics of the Frankfurt School; landscapes of northern England; art and philosophy of Greek antiquity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There have been substantial debates about the relationship of art to society over the last 200 years. The development of socially engaged arts practices in the 19th and 20th century from Arts and Crafts to Bauhaus to contemporary participatory arts has been central to notions of cultural value, engagement, participation and democratic inclusivity. Yet there are some problematic aspects to these debates and practices including the instrumentalisation of art to progressive and indeed totalitarian regimes, the privileging of process over product and a suspicion towards what we might call autonomous art. This Special Issue of Arts aims to explore this notion of autonomy across all art forms and politics and the ways that we might both reassert and critique the autonomy of art from social purpose; to paraphrase Adorno, perhaps the social function of art is not to have a social function. We welcome papers that address these key debates and critiques.
Dr. Martyn Hudson
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- art
- autonomy
- aesthetics
- social practice
- world-making
- imaginaries
