Abstract
This paper examines the three regimes of art proposed by Jacques Ranciere: the ethical regime of images, the representative/poetic regime of art, and the aesthetic regime of art which implies a politics of equality and democracy. For Ranciere, "dissensus" is the articulating point between art and politics. This paper focus on Ranciere's criticism on contemporary political art: how the "critical art" takes the wrong track toward the "testimony art" and "relational art"; how the "critical art" was polluted by the logic of global consumerism; and how the ethical turn of contemporary art constitutes a deconstruction of both the autonomy and the policity of art. In light of Ranciere's analysis of some works of art, this paper also sketches what political/critical art could mean today.
First Page
97
Last Page
106
Recommended Citation
Jiang, Hongsheng. 2012. "Jacques Ranciere's Regimes of Art and Contemporary Political Art." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 32, (2): pp.97-106. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol32/iss2/8
