Guided Freedom: Aesthetics, Tutelage, and the Interpretation of Art
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Bennett, Tony
Date published
2011
Abstract
This paper examines the operations of post-Kantian aesthetic discourses as parts of cultural technologies that induct individuals into particular kinds of independent and critical reflexivity modelled on the autonomy of the work of art. While acknowledging the historical force of these technologies in producing a form of ‘guided freedom’, the paper reflects on their limitations, particularly as exemplified in the writings of the philosopher Jacques Rancière.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
15
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright