aesthetic revolution

is an early 19th century transition from the representative regime of art in the name of the aesthetic regime.

By calling into question the representative regime of art in the name of the aesthetic regime around the beginning of the nineteenth century, this 'silent revolution' transformed an organized set of relation ships between the visible and the invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible, knowledge and action, activity and passivity. The aesthetic revolution in the sensible order did not, however, lead to the death of the representative regime. On the contrary, it introduced an irresolvable contradiction between diverse elements of the representative and aesthetic regimes of art.' (Rancière 2000: 82) Rancière, Jacques. 2000. The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible. Continuum: New York

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aesthetic revolution