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Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity
Johanna Drucker
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Description for Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 264 pages, 16 colour pl 32halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ABA; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 620.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226165042
SKU
V9780226165042
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99-15
About Johanna Drucker
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.
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