Shopping : A Century of Art and Consumer Culture

by Grunenberg, Christoph; Koolhass, Rem (CON); Schmitz, Rudolf (CON); Taylor, Mark (CON); Hunt, Robin (CON); Zizekj, Slavoj (CON)

• ISBN13: 9783775712149
• ISBN10: 3775712143
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Shopping--the word nowadays signifies more than the mere purchasing of goods. From the Paris arcades to the suburban mall, buying has been an essential part of urban life throughout the 20th century. As a ritual, shopping has both created and transformed our identities. For artists, consumer meccas and all their forms of presentation have long been a source of inspiration and criticism. If Walter Benjamin's description of the flaneurin turn-of-the-century Paris was the turning point in our understanding of the complex interchanges between consumer society and art, the cultural productions that followed his theorizing hardly proved him wrong. Consider only Pop Art, a mode of art making created by a generation of artists who themselves were designers of advertising materials, and who used those same products as source material for work that now hangs in museums. Shoppingis the first publication to be extensively devoted to this topic. It documents and analyzes the fascination and influence of the fine arts, architecture, film, and music on the aesthetics, structure, and environment of consumer culture. Numerous illustrations reveal the crossover work of artists like Eug ne Atget, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Christo, Duane Hanson, Barbara Kruger, Jeff Koons, Andreas Gursky, and others, as well as pieces conceived by fine artists, architects, and film makers. Complete with contributions by internationally renowned authors, Shoppingserves as a diversified basis for the discussion of a topic more dear to us than most of us would admit. You simply must buy this book.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 8
Shopping	p. 13
Wonderland: Spectacles of Display from the Bon Marche to Prada	p. 17
Duty-Free Shopping	p. 39
The Artist as Consumer	p. 55
'... therefore I am' The Shopper-Spectator and Transubstantiation through Purchase	p. 62
Shed, Cathedral or Museum?	p. 69
Evolution of Shopping	p. 80
Defense d'afficher: Posters, Women and Modernity	p. 85
Circumstantial Evidence: Shops and Display Windows in Photographs by Atget, Abbott and Evans	p. 93
Picturing Collective Consumer Culture: Hannes Meyer's Co-op Vitrine	p. 112
Contemporary Art Applied to the Store and its Display Thoughts on Frederick Kiesler's Show Windows	p. 125
Merchandise Temptress: The Surrealistic Enticements of the Display Window Dummy	p. 130
Those Objects of Obscure Desires: Marcel Duchamp and his Shop Windows	p. 143
The Consumer Article in the Art World: On the Para-Economy of American Pop Art	p. 148
The American Supermarket	p. 171
Konrad Lueg and Gerhard Richter, Living with Pop - A Demonstration on behalf of Capitalist Realism	p. 179
Fluxus Consumption: A Strange Form of Happiness	p. 189
Joseph Beuys, Wirtschaftswerte, 1980	p. 198
The Glamour of Things	p. 203
Shop Until You Stop	p. 222
List of Works	p. 254
Bibliography	p. 263
Index	p. 267
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