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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicityby Johanna Drucker
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 cultureyet 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 cultureall 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. Review:"What a relief to read a release from dogma! Drucker offers an antidote to habitual ways of seeing and critiquing todays art, and in so doing, Sweet Dreams also heals the critics and the viewers vision, so that we can see contemporary art and culture for ourselves."--Joanna Frueh, author of Monster/Beauty and Erotic Faculties Synopsis: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. About the AuthorJohanna Drucker is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of several books, including The Visible Word, The Alphabetic Labyrinth, The Century of Artists' Books, and Figuring the Word. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: Starting Now 1. Sweet Dreams 1. Twilight 2. Reawakening and Imagining Otherwise, Again 2. Current Conditions 1. Symbolic Currency 2. Complicit Sensibilities 3. Forms of Flirtation 3. Critical Histories 1. The Legacy of Autonomy 2. The Reconceptualization of Art 4. Forms of Complicity 1. Slacker Aesthetics 2. Violating the Old Taboos of Fashion, Amusement, and Sentimentality 3. New Monumentality and the "Now" Sublime 4. After Visual Un-pleasure or Monsters and Flesh 5. Painting as an Impure Medium 6. Hybridity and Unnaturalism 7. Thingness and Objecthood 8. Affectivity and Entropy 9. Dubious Documents 10. New Aestheticism and Media Culture 11. Techno-bodies and Art Culture 12. Commodified and Mediated Identities 13. Image Branding and Art Product Design 14. Flagrant Complicity 15. Mediation of Modern Life Conclusion Notes Index
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