Delirious consumption : aesthetics and consumer capitalism in Mexico and Brazil / Sergio Delgado Moya.

Author
Delgado Moya, Sergio [Browse]
Format
Book
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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      Series
      Border Hispanisms [More in this series]
      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.
      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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