[DOC] Olly's Prison (Modern Plays) by Edward Bond in Arts-Photography

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Modernisms Other Work challenges deeply held critical beliefs about the meaning-in particular the political meaning-of modernisms commitment to the work of art as an object detached from the world. Ranging over works of poetry; fiction; painting; sculpture; and film; it argues that modernisms core aesthetic problem-the artworks status as an object; and a subjects relation to it-poses fundamental questions of agency; freedom; and politics. With fresh accounts of works by canonical figures such as William Carlos Williams and Marcel Duchamp; and transformative readings of less-studied writers such as William Gaddis and Amiri Baraka; Siraganian reinterprets the relationship between aesthetic autonomy and politics. Through attentive readings; the study reveals how political questions have always been modernisms critical work; even when writers such as Gertrude Stein and Wyndham Lewis boldly assert the art objects immunity from the worlds interpretations. Reorienting our understanding of the period; Siraganian demonstrates that the freedom of the art object from the readers meaning presented a way to imagine an individuals complicated liberty within the state. Offering readers an original encounter with modernism; Modernisms Other Work will interest literary and art historians; literary theorists; critics; and scholars in cultural studies.