Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity

by Johanna Drucker

Book Overview

Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. Calling for a revamping of the academic critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices, Drucker argues that contemporary art is fully engaged with material culture--yet still struggling to escape the oppositional legacy of the early twentieth-century avant-garde.

Drucker shows that artists today are aware...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226165043
• ISBN13: 9780226165042
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"