Sweet dreams
Subtitle: contemporary art and complicity
By: Johanna Drucker.
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Postmodernism; Art and society; Art criticism -- Philosophy; Art, Modern -- 20th century; Art, Modern -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sweet dreams.  Twilight; title: Reawakening and imagining; title: Otherwise, again; title: Current conditions.  Symbolic currency; title: Complicit sensibilities; title: Forms of flirtation; title: Critical histories.  The legacy of autonomy; title: The reconceptualization of art; title: Forms of complicity.  Slacker aesthetics; title: Violating the old taboos of fashion, amusement, and sentimentality; title: New monumentality and the "Now" sublime; title: After visual un-pleasure or monsters and flesh; title: Painting as an impure medium; title: Hybridity and unnaturalism; title: Thingness and objecthood; title: Affectivity and entropy; title: Dubious documents; title: New aestheticism and media culture; title: Techno-bodies and art culture; title: Commodified and meditated identities; title: Image branding and art product design; title: Flagrant complicity; title: Mediation of modern life.