Against Art and Culture

Author:   Liam Dee
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
ISBN:  

9789811349935


Pages:   289
Publication Date:   23 December 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Offering a negative definition of art in relation to the concept of culture, this book establishes the concept of ‘art/culture’ to describe the unity of these two fields around named-labour, idealised creative subjectivity and surplus signification. Contending a conceptual and social reality of a combined ‘art/culture’ , this book demonstrates that the failure to appreciate the dynamic totality of art and culture by its purported negators is due to almost all existing critiques of art and culture being defences of a ‘true’ art or culture against ‘inauthentic’ manifestations, and art thus ultimately restricting creativity to the service of the bourgeois commodity regime. While the evidence that art/culture enables commodification has long been available, the deduction that art/culture itself is fundamentally of the world of commodification has failed to gain traction. By applying a nuanced analysis of both commodification and the larger systems of ideological power, the book considers how the ‘surplus’ of art/culture is used to legitimate the bourgeois status quo rather than unravel it. It also examines possibilities for a post-art/culture world based on both existing practices that challenge art/culture identity as well as speculations on the integration of play and aesthetics into general social life. An out-and-out negation of art and culture, this book offers a unique contribution to the cultural critique landscape.

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Author:   Liam Dee
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9789811349935


ISBN 10:   9811349932
Pages:   289
Publication Date:   23 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: What is Art/Culture and Why Should You Be Against It?.- Artistic Differences: In Search of a Negation.- Artistic License: The Catechisms of Art/Culture.- Artistic Freedom: Privilege and New Products.- That’s Showbiz! Artistic Form and Control.- Conclusion: O Bailan Todos O No Baila Nadie.

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Liam Dee is an independent researcher who received his PhD in Critical and Cultural Studies from Macquarie University, Australia, in 2007. After a visiting fellowship at the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature in the University of Minnesota, he taught design history and theory at the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia. He is currently a visiting fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, and also works for the Australian government in Canberra.

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