| Description |
1 online resource (x, 316 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Post 45
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Post 45.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Styles of repair -- Detox -- Filter -- Binge -- Ghost -- Afterword : on ambivalence and promiscuous archives. |
| Summary |
"In this expansive and provocative new work, Michael Dango theorizes how aesthetic style manages crisis--and why taking crisis seriously means taking aesthetics seriously. Detoxing, filtering, binging, and ghosting: these are four actions that have come to define how people deal with the stress of living in a world that seems in permanent crisis. As Dango argues, they can also be used to describe contemporary art and literature. Employing what he calls "promiscuous archives," Dango traverses media and re-shuffles literary and art historical genealogies to make his case. The book discusses social media filters alongside the minimalism of Donald Judd and La Monte Young and the television shows West Wing and True Detective. It reflects on the modernist cuisine of Ferran Adrià and the fashion design of Issey Miyake. And, it dissects writing by Jenifer Egan, David Foster Wallace, David Mitchell, and Zadie Smith. Unpacking how the styles of these works detox, filter, binge, or ghost their worlds, Crisis Style is at once a taxonomy of contemporary cultural production and a theorization of action in a world always in need of repair. Ultimately, Dango presents a compelling argument for why we need aesthetic theory to understand what we're doing in our world today"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Aesthetics, American -- 20th century.
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Aesthetics, American. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Aesthetics, American -- 21st century.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Arts, American -- 20th century.
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Arts, American. |
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Arts, American -- 21st century.
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Arts, Modern -- Philosophy.
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Arts, Modern -- Philosophy. |
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Arts, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Dango, Michael. Crisis style Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021. 9781503615052 (DLC) 2021005330 |
| ISBN |
9781503629561 electronic book |
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1503629562 electronic book |
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9781503615052 hardcover |
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9781503629554 paperback |
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