Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity
by Johanna Drucker
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- 9780226165059
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Paperback / softback. New. 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 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 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.
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- Title
- Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity
- Author
- Johanna Drucker
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
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- 3
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0226165051
- ISBN 13
- 9780226165059
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- This edition first published
- September 25, 2006
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