Fashionable Art
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Fashionable Art

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

Nominated for the 2016 Art in Literature: Mary Lynn Kotz Award, Library of Virginia 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.

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Information

Year
2015
Print ISBN
9780857851826
eBook ISBN
9780857852250
Edition
1
Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. CONTENTS
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 WHAT IS FASHIONABLE ART?
  7. 2 THE ARTIST AS IMPRESARIO, THE ARTIST AS BRAND: FROM BAUDELAIRE TO BARNEY
  8. 3 ‘LOOK AT ME I’M DIFFERENT!’: IDENTITY ART AND THE EXPECTATIONS OF RACE
  9. 4 EXOTICISM AT THE BRINK: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE AND ABORIGINAL ART
  10. 5 LESS IS LESS: FORMLESSNESS
  11. 6 COME FLY WITH ME: PARTICIPATORY ART, INTERACTIVITY AND AUDIENCE INVOLVEMENT
  12. 7 VIDEO ART AND VIDEOPHILIA
  13. 8 MINIMALISM: DONALD JUDD OR IKEA?
  14. 9 INSIDE-OUT: OUTSIDER ARTISTS GO INSIDE
  15. Conclusion: Fashionable Art
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index