The Resource Sweet dreams : contemporary art and complicity, Johanna Drucker
Sweet dreams : contemporary art and complicity, Johanna Drucker
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- Summary
- Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. 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. She calls for a revamping of the critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices." "Drucker shows that artists today are aware of working within the ideologies of mainstream culture and have replaced avant-garde resistance with acknowledged complicity. Finding their materials at malls and superstores or exploring celebrity culture, contemporary artists have created a vibrantly playful attitude towards mass culture - all while critics continue to cling to an outmoded vocabulary of opposition and radical negativity that defined modernism's avant-grade. At the cutting edge of new media research, Drucker surveys a wide range of exciting contemporary artists demonstrating their clear departure from the past and petitioning viewers and critics to shift their own terms and sensibilities as well. Sweet Dreams is a testament to the creative processes and self-conscious heterogeneity of art today as well as a revolutionary effort to celebrate imaginative, creative thought and the value of art in contemporary life.--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xviii, 291 pages, 16 pages of plates
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780226165042
- Label
- Sweet dreams : contemporary art and complicity
- Title
- Sweet dreams
- Title remainder
- contemporary art and complicity
- Statement of responsibility
- Johanna Drucker
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. 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. She calls for a revamping of the critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices." "Drucker shows that artists today are aware of working within the ideologies of mainstream culture and have replaced avant-garde resistance with acknowledged complicity. Finding their materials at malls and superstores or exploring celebrity culture, contemporary artists have created a vibrantly playful attitude towards mass culture - all while critics continue to cling to an outmoded vocabulary of opposition and radical negativity that defined modernism's avant-grade. At the cutting edge of new media research, Drucker surveys a wide range of exciting contemporary artists demonstrating their clear departure from the past and petitioning viewers and critics to shift their own terms and sensibilities as well. Sweet Dreams is a testament to the creative processes and self-conscious heterogeneity of art today as well as a revolutionary effort to celebrate imaginative, creative thought and the value of art in contemporary life.--
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- 1952-
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- Drucker, Johanna
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Postmodernism
- Art and society
- Art criticism
- Art, Modern
- Art, Modern
- Label
- Sweet dreams : contemporary art and complicity, Johanna Drucker
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276) and index
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- volume
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocm57528356
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 291 pages, 16 pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780226165042
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)57528356
- Label
- Sweet dreams : contemporary art and complicity, Johanna Drucker
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocm57528356
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 291 pages, 16 pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780226165042
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)57528356
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