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005			20250317100351.0
008			250312042017GB eng
020			_a9781138261198
037			_bTaylor & Francis _cGBP 42.99 _fBB
040			_a01
041			_aeng
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072	7		_aAB _2bic
072	7		_aART015110 _2bisac
072	7		_a745.209051 _2bisac
100	1		_aGrace McQuilten
245	1	0	_aArt in Consumer Culture _bMis-Design
250			_a1
260			_aOxford _bRoutledge _c20170331
300			_a218 p
520			_bWritten with beautiful clarity, Art in Consumer Culture: Mis-Design asks the contemporary art world to be honest about the pervasive effects of commodification and the difficulty of staging critique. The book examines the collusion of 'art' and 'design' in contemporary artistic practices in order to find avenues of critique in a commercially driven cultural landscape. Grace McQuilten focuses on the work of Takashi Murakami, Andrea Zittel, Adam Kalkin and Vito Acconci, four contemporary artists who claim to be working in the field of design rather than the traditional art world. McQuilten argues that Zittel, Acconci and Kalkin engage with 'design' only to reactivate the critical practice of art in a more direct engagement with capital - and conceives of and affirms a future for art, outside of the art world, as a parasite in the complex beast of late capitalism. This book is an important and timely provocation to a cynical and apathetic consumer culture, and a call to arms for creative freedom and critical thought.
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