| Description |
xviii, 291 p., 16 p. of numb. plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographic references (p. 255-276) and index. |
| Note |
Originally published: 2005. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Art, Modern -- 21st century.
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| ISBN |
0226165051 (pbk.) |
|
9780226165059 (pbk.) |
| OCLC # |
70985449 |
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