Art after the Hipster

Identity Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics

Wes Hill (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

VIII, 150 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-68577-9 (ISBN)

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This book examines the complexities of the hipster through the lens of art history and cultural theory, from Charles Baudelaire's flâneur 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.

Wes Hill lectures in Art History and Visual Culture at Southern Cross University, Australia. Previous publications include Emily Floyd: The Dawn (2014) and How Folklore Shaped Modern Art (2016).

1. Introduction: Caring Too Much and Not Enough.- 2. The Twenty-First-Century Hipster.- 3. The Postmodern Hipster.- 4. The Hipster as an Entrepreneur of the Self.- 5. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.11.2017
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 150 p. 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	413 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Artiness • Cultural Studies • Cultural Theory • Digital/New Media • Ethics and Aesthetics • Fine Arts • Fine arts: art forms • Global Contemporary Art • Global/International Culture • Hipster • Identity politics • Literature, Cultural and Media Studies • Media studies: Internet, digital media & society • Media studies: Internet, digital media & society • popular culture • society & culture: general • Society & culture: general
ISBN-10	3-319-68577-5 / 3319685775
ISBN-13	978-3-319-68577-9 / 9783319685779
Zustand	Neuware