Written 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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