Art after the Hipster - Identity Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book examines the complexities of the hipster through the lens of art history and cultural theory, from Charles Baudelaire's flaneur to the contemporary "creative" borne from creative industries policies. It claims that the recent ubiquity of hipster culture has led many artists to confront their own significance, responding to the mass artification of contemporary life by de-emphasising the formal and textual deconstructions so central to the legacies of modern and postmodern art. In the era of creative digital technologies, long held characteristics of art such as individual expression, innovation, and alternative lifestyle are now features of a flooded and fast-paced global marketplace. Against the idea that artists, like hipsters, are the "foot soldiers of capitalism", the institutionalized networks that make up the contemporary art world are working to portray a view of art that is less a discerning exercise in innovative form-making than a social platform-a forum for populist aesthetic pleasures or socio-political causes. It is in this sense that the concept of the hipster is caught up in age-old debates about the relation between ethics and aesthetics, examined here in terms of the dynamics of global contemporary art.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	October 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Wes Hill
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	150
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-68577-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-68577-5
Barcode:	9783319685779

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