Art after the Hipster (eBook)

Identity Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics

Wes Hill (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
VIII, 150 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-68578-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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).

Inhalt

Preface 6
Contents 7
Chapter 1: Introduction: Caring Too Much and Not Enough 9
Chapter 2: The Twenty-First-Century Hipster 17
Arty Pluralism 17
Is the Hipster Really Dead? 19
Hipster Privilege 20
Hipster Hate 21
The Hipster as a Global Contemporary Phenomenon 23
Slippery Hipster 26
Post-critical: Living with Hypocrisies 30
Zizek´s Hipster Other 35
Rancière´s Hipster: Dissensus as Consensus 37
Rancière´s Theory of Aesthetics 39
Politics and Ethics 42
The Hipster as a Product of the Middle Classes 46
Chapter 3: The Postmodern Hipster 55
Hipster Origins 55
Broyard´s Hipster: The Inauthenticity of Being Black 58
Hipster Infrapolitics 62
Aesthetic Rivalries 65
The Pitfalls of Hipster Critique 68
Baudrillard´s Hipster as Postmodern Consumer 71
Postmodern Critique as Nihilistic Revelation 73
Dandies and Flâneurs: The Original Hipster Ironists 76
Warhol as Proto-Hipster 78
Duchamp´s Ironic Knowingness 81
Hipster Irony as Aesthetic Feeling: De Duve on Duchamp 83
The Hipster´s Social Withdrawal as Social Connection 85
Pastiche as Pejorative Postmodernism 88
Chapter 4: The Hipster as an Entrepreneur of the Self 98
The Market Logic of Neoliberalism 98
1990s Alternative Culture as Proto-Hipsterism 100
The Self-Sabotage of the Alternative 102
The Arty Alternative of the YBAs 103
Creativity as a Tool of Gentrification 105
Foucault´s Entrepreneur of the Self 107
Activism Without Collectivity 110
Conscientious Capitalism: Bourriaud´s Relational Aesthetics 114
Hipster Utopias 116
Combatting Sameness: Curating Subaltern Subjectivities 118
Countering Creativity with Inertia 121
Groys: Fabricating Artistic Authenticity 124
Global Art Under Neoliberal Conditions 129
Chapter 5: Conclusion 136
Bibliography 141
Index 150

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2017
• Zusatzinfo: VIII, 150 p. 1 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Artiness • Ethics and Aesthetics • Global Contemporary Art • Hipster • Identity politics
• ISBN-10: 3-319-68578-3 / 3319685783
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-68578-6 / 9783319685786