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Delirious consumption : aesthetics and consumer capitalism in Mexico and Brazil / Sergio Delgado Moya.
Author
Delgado Moya, Sergio
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Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2017.
©2017
Description
xi, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Firestone Library - Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Study Room
BH301.A94 D45 2017
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Subject(s)
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
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Mexico
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20th century
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
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Brazil
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20th century
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Art and literature
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Mexico
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20th century
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Art and literature
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Brazil
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20th century
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Consumption (Economics) in art
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Series
Border Hispanisms
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Summary note
In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass consumption on an unprecedented scale, giving rise to the consumer society that exists today. Many avant-garde artists explored the nexus between consumption and aesthetics, questioning how consumerism affects how we perceive the world, place ourselves in it, and make sense of it via perception and emotion. Delirious Consumption focuses on the two largest cultural economies in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil, and analyzes how their artists and writers both embraced and resisted the spirit of development and progress that defines the consumer moment in late capitalism. Sergio Delgado Moya looks specifically at the work of David Alfaro Siqueiros, the Brazilian concrete poets, Octavio Paz, and Lygia Clark to determine how each of them arrived at forms of aesthetic production balanced between high modernism and consumer culture. He finds in their works a provocative positioning vis-à-vis urban commodity capitalism, an ambivalent position that takes an assured but flexible stance against commodification, alienation, and the politics of domination and inequality that defines market economies. In Delgado Moya's view, these poets and artists appeal to uselessness, nonutility, and noncommunication-all markers of the aesthetic-while drawing on the terms proper to a world of consumption and consumer culture Book jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-267) and index.
Contents
Introduction : aesthetics in the age of consumer culture. Some terms
Attention and distraction : the billboard as mural form
Fascination; or, enlightenment in the age of neon light
Poetry, replication, late capitalism : Octavio Paz as concrete poet
Lygia Clark, at home with objects.
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ISBN
9781477314340 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
1477314342 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
9781477314357 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
1477314350 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
SuDoc no.
Z UA380.8 D378de
LCCN
2017010837
OCLC
976406093
Other standard number
40027594252
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