Rezension: "The Autonomy of Art is Ordinary: Notes in Defense of an Idea of Emancipation" von Kim West

Abstract

In The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary, critic and researcher Kim West pushes back against post-critical arguments that label artistic autonomy as elitist or politically irrelevant. Rather than seeing autonomy as a withdrawal from the world, West reimagines it as a form of “self-determined dependency”–a way for art to stay critically engaged while still being connected to society.