SWEET DREAMS by Johanna Drucker ( 9780226165042 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

SWEET DREAMS
CONTEMPORARY ART AND COMPLICITY

By:

Johanna Drucker

Format:

Hardback

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£80.00

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ISBN 10:

0226165043

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9780226165042

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Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

15 July, 2005

Pages:

264

Description:

Sweet Dreams is a testament to the creative processes and self- conscious heterogeneity of art today as well as a revolutionary effort to solicit collaboration that will encourage the production of imaginative thought and contribute to contemporary life.

Synopsis:

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 movement that exudes enthusiasm and affirmation - all while critics continue to cling to an outmoded vocabulary of opposition and radical negativity that defined modernism's avantgrade. 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 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 solicit collaboration that will encourage the production of imaginative thought and contribute to contemporary life.

Illustrations:

16 colour pl 32halftones

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University of Chicago Press

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