Sweet dreams : contemporary art and complicity / Johanna Drucker.

Author/creator Drucker, Johanna, 1952-
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University Of Chicago Press, 2005.
Descriptionxviii, 291 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-276) and index.
LCCN 2005004164
ISBN0226165043 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks N6494.P66 D78 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold