Towards a Politics of (Relational) Aesthetics

@article{Downey2007TowardsAP,
  title={Towards a Politics of (Relational) Aesthetics},
  author={Anthony Downey},
  journal={Third Text},
  year={2007},
  volume={21},
  pages={267 - 275}
}
The aesthetic criteria used to interpret art as a practice have changed radically since the 1960s. To note as much is to observe a truism: the idea (or should that be the ideal) of a universalist aesthetic point of reference, or even the notion of aesthetics as a nominal interpretive baseline, has been discursively displaced by identitarian, theoretical, political, economic, ethical and social interventions. And yet aesthetics as a topic, far from fading into a minor role, has become something… 
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