Sweet dreams : contemporary art and complicity / Johanna Drucker.
| Author/creator | Drucker, Johanna, 1952- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, 2005. |
| Description | xviii, 291 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Sweet dreams. Twilight ; Reawakening and imagining ; Otherwise, again. -- Current conditions. Symbolic currency ; Complicit sensibilities ; Forms of flirtation. -- Critical histories. The legacy of autonomy ; The reconceptualization of art. -- Forms of complicity. Slacker aesthetics ; Violating the old taboos of fashion, amusement, and sentimentality ; New monumentality and the "Now" sublime ; After visual un-pleasure or monsters and flesh ; Painting as an impure medium ; Hybridity and unnaturalism ; Thingness and objecthood ; Affectivity and entropy ; Dubious documents ; New aestheticism and media culture ; Techno-bodies and art culture ; Commodified and meditated identities ; Image branding and art product design ; Flagrant complicity ; Mediation of modern life. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-276) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005004164 |
| ISBN | 0226165043 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | N6494.P66 D78 2005 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |