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November 9, 2007
In his essays on art and cinema--The Future of the Image ---Jacques Rancière argues that art derives its meaning from the interaction between the image and the audience. Whether the artist produces figurative representations or abstract symbols, their forms are always endowed with meaning; indeed, art remains art insofar as the image stimulates interpretation.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, collar down, CBD Adelaide, 2007.
In this manner Rancière questions the popular notion that 20th century artists merely strove to emphasize the flatness of the medium for its own sake, and challenges us to look at art anew.
If politics is the struggle of an unrecognized party for equal recognition in the established order then aesthetics is bound up in this battle because the battle takes place over the image of society -- what it is permissible to say or to show.
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