ART IN CONSUMER CULTURE by Grace McQuilten ( 9781409422402 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

ART IN CONSUMER CULTURE
MIS-DESIGN

By:

Grace McQuilten

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

1409422402

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9781409422402

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

28 June, 2011

Pages:

218

Description:

Asks the contemporary art world to be honest about the pervasive effects of commodification and the difficulty of staging critique. This book examines the collusion of 'art' and 'design' in contemporary artistic practices in order to find avenues of critique in a commercially driven cultural landscape.

Synopsis:

Written with beautiful clarity, Art in Consumer Culture: Mis-Design asks the contemporary art world to be honest about the pervasive effects of commodification and the difficulty of staging critique. The book examines the collusion of 'art' and 'design' in contemporary artistic practices in order to find avenues of critique in a commercially driven cultural landscape. Grace McQuilten focuses on the work of Takashi Murakami, Andrea Zittel, Adam Kalkin and Vito Acconci, four contemporary artists who claim to be working in the field of design rather than the traditional art world. McQuilten argues that Zittel, Acconci and Kalkin engage with 'design' only to reactivate the critical practice of art in a more direct engagement with capital - and conceives of and affirms a future for art, outside of the art world, as a parasite in the complex beast of late capitalism. This book is an important and timely provocation to a cynical and apathetic consumer culture, and a call to arms for creative freedom and critical thought.

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Includes 4 colour and 15 b&w illustrations

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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