Counter-Realism - Art and Subjectivity in Contemporary Capitalism

An ambitious and original study with case studies focusing on the works of William Kentridge, Amalia Ulman, Melanie Gilligan, Ryan Trecartin and Elizabeth Price, Counter-realism shows the ways in which key features of contemporary art may be understood in relation to fundamental aspects of contemporary political and economic life.

About the author

Tamara Trodd is Lecturer in European Modernism at the University of Edinburgh

Product details

• Authors: Tamara Trodd, Trodd Tamara
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 16.12.2025
• EAN: 9781526190215
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-9021-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, Capitalism, ART / Film & Video, ART / Art & Politics, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Electronic, holographic & video art, Digital, video and new media arts, ART / History / 20th & 21st Century