Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity Paperback - 2006
by Johanna Drucker
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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-garde. 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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- Title Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity
- Author Johanna Drucker
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd Paperback
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date September 25, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780226165059 / 0226165051
- Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.06 x 0.92 in (22.86 x 15.39 x 2.34 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 709.049
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