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Radical Aesthetics Radical Art Series

Radical Aesthetics Radical Art

Promoting debate, confronting conventions and formulating alternative ways of thinking, Jane Tormey and Gillian Whiteley explore what radical aesthetics might mean in the twenty first century. This new book series RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt (RaRa) - reconsiders the relationship between how art is practiced and how art is theorized. Striving to liberate theories of aesthetics from visual traditions, this series of single-authored titles expands the parameters of art and aesthetics in a creative and meaningful way. Encompassing the multisensory, collaborative, participatory and transitory practices that have developed over the last twenty years, Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art is an innovative and revolutionary take on the intersection between theory and practice.

The RaRa series aims to:
*      critique conventional approaches to thinking about art practice and aesthetics
*      reconsider the interrelationships between theories and art practice on equal terms
*      provide a useful resource to assist research and provoke discussion
*      address current issues in response to contemporary contexts
*      encourage an interdisciplinary approach to discussion          
*      survey recent and current material and debate

The first title in the series to be released is Practical Aesthetics: Event, Affect and Art after 9/11 by Jill Bennett. Further titles include Eco-Aesthetics by Malcolm Miles and Indigenous Aesthetics by Dylan Miner. The commissioning editors invite submissions from authors (artists and scholars) who can make a provocative contribution to these debates.

For further information about the RaRa project see website:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/research/groups/politicised/rara.html

For further information or enquiries please contact RaRa series editors
Jane Tormey and Gillian Whiteley
j.tormey@lboro.ac.uk
g.whiteley@lboro.ac.uk

Part of the Radical Aesthetics, Radical Art series, this book challenges the notion that art and 'real life' are somehow opposed. Practical Aesthetics proposes a new way of reading contemporary artworks - and a new understanding of how fundamental art is to our social survival.

Part of the Radical Aesthetics, Radical Art series, this book challenges the notion that art and 'real life' are somehow opposed. Practical Aesthetics proposes a new way of reading contemporary artworks - and a new understanding of how fundamental art is to our social survival.

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