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Sweet dreams : contemporary art and complicity / Johanna Drucker.
Fine Arts Library N6494.P66 D78 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drucker, Johanna, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism.
- Art and society.
- Art criticism--Philosophy.
- Art criticism.
- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Art, Modern.
- Art, Modern--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 291 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, 2005.
- Contents:
- 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 meditated identities ; Image branding and art product design ; Flagrant complicity ; Mediation of modern life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226165043
- OCLC:
- 57528356
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