Fashionable Art

ISBN-13: 9780857851826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 200 str.

Adam Geczy & Jacqueline Millner

Opis

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.Taking a complex view of the meaning of fashion as it relates to art, while also offering critiques of 'art as fashion', Fashionable Art is an original, key text that will be essential reading for students and scholars of art history, fashion studies and material culture.

Recenzje

This stimulating, informative and well-needed book navigates contemporary art with viewpoints that are as refreshing as they are incisive. Fashionable Art presents us with an array of surprises and is written with verve and wit. This is a very original contribution to studies in contemporary art, an essential read - but not for the faint hearted! Benjamin Genocchio, Editor-in-Chief of Artnet, New York, USA

Spis treści

Introduction1. Impressionism: The Avant-Garde Imperative 2. Cubism: The Avant-Garde Made Academic 3. Expressionism and Abstraction: The Guarantee of Feeling4. The Popularity of Pop and the Apotheosis of Kitsch5. Povera and Grunge: Power to the Poor 6. Photography Becomes Photomedia 7. Identity Art8. Chinese, 'Asian' and Aboriginal Art: Neo-Exoticism and Neo-Primitivism 9. YBA: Marketing the New10. Interactivity, Inclusion and Immersion11. The Art Market and Marketing ArtConclusion: Art and the Eternal ReturnBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Adam Geczy is an artist and writer who teaches at Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney, Australia. Jacqueline Millner is Associate Dean at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia.