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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5486 Collections and/or Records:

Sweet Dreams; contemporary art and complicity, 2005

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Identifier: CC-48338-69363
Scope and Contents From the inside flap of the book: Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. 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. She calls for a revamping of the critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices.Drucker shows that artists today are aware of working within the ideologies of mainstream culture and have replaced avant-garde resistance with acknowledged complicity. Finding their materials at malls and superstores or exploring celebrity culture, contemporary artists have created a vibrantly playful attitude towards mass culture"”all while critics continue to cling to an outmoded vocabulary of opposition and radical negativity that defined modernism's avant-garde. At the cutting edge of new media research, Drucker surveys a wide range of exciting contemporary...
Dates: 2005

Swelling, 1988

 Item — Box 338: [Barcode: 31858072491230]
Identifier: CC-22913-23349
Scope and Contents

Introduction by Al Ackerman consists of four drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Symposium / Plato ; Tom Griffith, translator ; Phillips T., 1991

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Identifier: CC-04310-4390
Scope and Contents

Includes ten illustrations by Tom Phillips -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991