Gober’s art produces the concept of utopian space, not utopian space itself
Evidence
It is within the perspective of this possibility, which seems to renounce the protopolitical vocation of Le Corbusier to transform our built space at once and against all economic and social obstacles, that Gober’s project can best be grasped. It can be seen, borrowing an expression from Althusser, not so much as the production of some form of Utopian space but rather as the production of the concept of such space. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 385
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distinguishes producing ‘the concept of space’ from producing space or representation of space — a precise theoretical distinction central to Jameson’s account of postmodern critical art.
- XREF: connects to: Art expresses utopian harmony negatively by embodying contradictions unresolved — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 549; Art is trapped between utopian longing and the charge of false comfort — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 66; Artistic categories for Bloch become modes of Utopian realization at the ontological level — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 290 (+3 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Art expresses utopian harmony negatively by embodying contradictions unresolved — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 549; Art is trapped between utopian longing and the charge of false comfort — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 66; Artistic categories for Bloch become modes of Utopian realization at the ontological level — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 290 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Artistic categories for Bloch become modes of Utopian realization at the ontological level
#complicates(0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 290 - Modernist art redeems reification’s fragments as Utopian compensation
#complicates(0.72) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 5942