Art in Consumer Culture: Mis-Design Contributor(s): McQuilten, Grace (Author) |
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ISBN: 1409422402 ISBN-13: 9781409422402 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $198.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) |
Dewey: 745.209 |
LCCN: 2010043377 |
Physical Information: 218 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Written with beautiful clarity, Art in Consumer Culture: Mis-Design asks the contemporary art world to be honest about the pervasive effects of commodification and the difficulty of staging critique. The book examines the collusion of 'art' and 'design' in contemporary artistic practices in order to find avenues of critique in a commercially driven cultural landscape. Grace McQuilten focuses on the work of Takashi Murakami, Andrea Zittel, Adam Kalkin and Vito Acconci, four contemporary artists who claim to be working in the field of design rather than the traditional art world. McQuilten argues that Zittel, Acconci and Kalkin engage with 'design' only to reactivate the critical practice of art in a more direct engagement with capital - and conceives of and affirms a future for art, outside of the art world, as a parasite in the complex beast of late capitalism. This book is an important and timely provocation to a cynical and apathetic consumer culture, and a call to arms for creative freedom and critical thought. |