| Art After the Hipster: Identity Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Hill, Wes (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319886231 ISBN-13: 9783319886237 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $56.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Art | Criticism & Theory - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 302.231 |
| Physical Information: 150 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This book examines the complexities of the hipster through the lens of art history and cultural theory, from Charles Baudelaire's fl neur to the contemporary "creative" borne from creative industries policies. It claims that the recent ubiquity of hipster culture has led many artists to confront their own significance, responding to the mass artification of contemporary life by de-emphasising the formal and textual deconstructions so central to the legacies of modern and postmodern art. In the era of creative digital technologies, long held characteristics of art such as individual expression, innovation, and alternative lifestyle are now features of a flooded and fast-paced global marketplace. Against the idea that artists, like hipsters, are the "foot soldiers of capitalism", the institutionalized networks that make up the contemporary art world are working to portray a view of art that is less a discerning exercise in innovative form-making than a social platform--a forum for populist aesthetic pleasures or socio-political causes. It is in this sense that the concept of the hipster is caught up in age-old debates about the relation between ethics and aesthetics, examined here in terms of the dynamics of global contemporary art. |