Sweet Dreams Contemporary Art and Complicity

Name: Sweet Dreams Contemporary Art and Complicity
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ISBN: 9780226165042

ISBN-10: 0226165043

ISBN-13: 9780226165042

Edition: 2005

Authors: Johanna Drucker

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Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. Calling for a revamping of the academic critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices, Drucker argues that contemporary art is fully engaged with material culture--yet still struggling to escape the oppositional legacy of the early twentieth-century avant-garde. Drucker shows that artists today are aware of working within the ideologies of mainstream culture and have replaced avant-garde defiance with eager complicity. Finding their materials at flea markets or exploring celebrity culture, contemporary artists have created a vibrantly participatory…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.90" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Johanna Drucker is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of several books, including The Visible Word, The Alphabetic Labyrinth, The Century of Artists' Books, and Figuring the Word.



List of Illustrations


Preface: Starting Now



Sweet Dreams



Twilight



Reawakening and Imagining Otherwise, Again



Current Conditions



Symbolic Currency



Complicit Sensibilities



Forms of Flirtation



Critical Histories



The Legacy of Autonomy



The Reconceptualization of Art



Forms of Complicity



Slacker Aesthetics



Violating the Old Taboos of Fashion, Amusement, and Sentimentality



New Monumentality and the "Now" Sublime



After Visual Un-pleasure or Monsters and Flesh



Painting as an Impure Medium



Hybridity and Unnaturalism



Thingness and Objecthood



Affectivity and Entropy



Dubious Documents



New Aestheticism and Media Culture



Techno-bodies and Art Culture



Commodified and Mediated Identities



Image Branding and Art Product Design



Flagrant Complicity



Mediation of Modern Life


Conclusion


Notes


Index