Sweet Dreams : Contemporary Art and Complicity Paperback - 2006
by Drucker, Johanna
- Used
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Details
- Title Sweet Dreams : Contemporary Art and Complicity
- Author Drucker, Johanna
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- 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
- Bookseller's Inventory # 39877752-6
- 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
From the rear cover
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.