Un'invenzione della modernità. La spettatorialità nell'arte contemporanea

Abstract

The spectatorship conditions the relationship between observers and artworks since the crisis of the Ancien Règime. The most engaged artists and theorist, in twentieth-century art and theater, considered such position as impossible and intolerable. Jacques Rancière opposed to this sentence an essay here assumed as an optical tool for the critical reinterpretation of the reciprocal positions between work, artist and audience in some case-studies involving the relationship between art and the public sphere.

Keywords

• spectatorship
• public art
• public sphere
• performance art
• empowerment
• spettatorialità
• arte pubblica
• sfera pubblica
• performance art
• emancipazione