Sublime Economy: On the Intersection of Art and Economics

by Joseph Childers, Joseph W. Childers, Jack Amariglio, et al.

Over the last two centuries, artists, critics, philosophers and theorists have contributed significantly to such representations of "the economy" as sublime. It might even be said that much of the emergence of a distinctly "modern" art in the West is inextricably linked to the perception of art's own autonomy and, therefore, its privileged, mostly critical, gaze at the terrible mixture of wonder and horror of capitalist economic practices and institutions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415781213
• ISBN13: 9780415781213
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"