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Figures of History - Rancière, Jacques, and Rose, Julie (Translated by)
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In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Ranci???re continues his reflections on the representative power of works of art. How does art render events that have spanned an era? What roles does it assign to those who enacted them or those who were the victims of such events? Ranci???re considers these questions in relation to the works of Claude Lanzmann, Goya, Manet, Kandinsky and Barnett Newman, among others, and demonstrates that these issues are not only confined to the spectator but have greater ...

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Figures of History 2014, Polity Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780745679570

Paperback

Figures of History 2014, Polity Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780745679563

Hardcover