Fashionable art
By: Adam Geczy and Jacqueline Millner
Contributors: Millner, Jacqueline, author
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780857851826; 9780857851819
Subjects: Social values; Art and society; Aesthetics
Description: Owing to digitization, globalization and mass culture, what is deemed 'desirable' and 'of the moment' in art has increasingly followed the patterns of fashion. While in the past artistic styles were always inflected with signs of their modernity, today biennales and art markets are defined by the next big thing, the next sensation, the next new idea. But how do opinions of what is 'good', 'progressive' and 'cutting edge' guide styles? What is it that makes works of art fashionable and commercial? Fashionable Art critically explores the relationships between art, commerce, taste and cultural value. Each chapter covers a major style or movement, from Chinese and Aboriginal art, Cubism and Pop Art to alternative identity and outsider art, exploring how contemporary art has been shaped since the 1970s. Drawing upon a variety of theoretical frameworks, from Adorno and Bourdieu to Simmel and Zizek, expert visual cultural scholars Geczy and Millner engage with both historical and contemporary debates on this lively topic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-173) and index.
Table of contents: title: What is fashionable art?; title: The artist as impresario, the artist as brand : from Baudelaire to Barney; title: 'Look at me I'm different!' : identity art and the expectations of race; title: Exoticism at the brink : contemporary Chinese and aboriginal art; title: Less is less : formlessness; title: Come fly with me : participatory art, interactivity and audience involvement; title: Video art and videophilia; title: Minimalism : Donald Judd or Ikea?; title: Inside-out : outsider artists go inside.