ART IN CONSUMER CULTURE: MIS-DESIGN

Book ID/图书代码： 00870014B71821

English Summary/英文概要： Written with beautiful clarity, "Art in Consumer Culture: Mis-Design" asks the contemporary art world to be honest about the pervasive effects of commodification and the difficulty of staging critique. The book examines the collusion of ’art’ and ’design’ in contemporary artistic practices in order to find avenues of critique in a commercially driven cultural landscape. Grace McQuilten focuses on the work of Takashi Murakami, Andrea Zittel, Adam Kalkin and Vito Acconci, four contemporary artists who claim to be working in the field of design rather than the traditional art world. McQuilten argues that Zittel, Acconci and Kalkin engage with ’design’ only to reactivate the critical practice of art in a more direct engagement with capital - and conceives of and affirms a future for art, outside of the art world, as a parasite in the complex beast of late capitalism. This book is an important and timely provocation to a cynical and apathetic consumer culture, and a call to arms for creative freedom and critical thought.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《消费者文化中的艺术：消失的设计》以优美、简明的笔触道来，呼吁现代艺术世界忠于商品化所延伸出的普遍性影响并接受呈现评论的艰难一面。本书审视了“艺术”与“设计”为了在以商业利益为驱动的文化大背景下还能找到评论的渠道和路径，从而在当代艺术实践过程中实现的相互联结。格蕾丝•马奎尔顿主要关注了四名声称专研于设计领域而非主攻传统艺术的当代艺术家：塔卡西•穆拉卡密，安德里亚•泽泰尔，亚当•卡尔金和维托•阿贡西等的作品。马奎尔顿认为他们专注于“设计”，只是为了以一种更为直接的资本方式去进行对艺术创作的评价---去为艺术构想并确保一种艺术世界以外的未来，就犹如寄生在资本主义晚期的一头复杂生物身上。对于当下势利而冷漠的消费者文化，本书对其进行了重要且及时的警示，并呼吁为创造自由与评论思潮而行动。（DC）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 格蕾丝•马奎尔顿是澳大利亚墨尔本大学文化与交流学院的一名荣誉教员。

Grace McQuilten is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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