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Boredom and Art examines the use of boredom as a strategy in modern and contemporary art to resist or frustrate the effects of consumerism and capitalism. This book traces the emergence of what Haladyn terms the will to boredom in which artists, writers and philosophers actively attempt to use the lack of interest inherent in the state of being 'bored' to challenge people. Instead of accepting the prescribed meanings of life given to us by consumer or mass culture, boredom represents the possibility of creating meaning: 'a threshold of great deeds' in Walter Benjamin's memorable wording. It is this conception of boredom as a positive experience of modern subjectivity that is the main critical position of Haladyn's study, in which he proposes that boredom is used by artists as a form of aesthetic resistance that, at its most positive, is the will to boredom.
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Art Theory & CriticismTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1. An Eye for Boredom
- 2. Riddle of the World
- 3. Art, Aesthetics and Boredom
- 4. Manet’s The Railway
- 5. The Shock, Wonder and Boredom of the Railway
- 6. Fascinations and Boredoms of the Modern Museum
- 7. The Avant-Garde as No Boredom, Yes Boredom
- 8. Breton’s Dadaist Excursion to Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre
- 9. Late-Modern Aesthetic of Boredom
- 10. Psychogeographical Boredom
- 11. The Unbearable Duration of Warhol’s Films
- 12. Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman
- Notes
- Bibliography