{ "item_title" : "Gothic Capitalism", "item_author" : [" Adam Turl "], "item_description" : "As western capitalism outlives any sense of social development or progress, culture takes on an increasingly gothic hue. The ruins of our industrial heyday are illuminated by digital billboards. The cyber-utopianism of the early Internet has waned, exposing Silicon Valley's anti-democratic ideologies and economies. As a result, far-right governments and fascist movements replace our meagre democracies. Looking around there are no saviours. Politics is moribund, while artists, once the dreamers of the modernist avant-garde, have become institutionalized and weak. Our revolutionary dreams are in tatters. Gothic Capitalism argues that artists can salvage art's spiritual and social roots by reassociating our art with working-class communities, class struggle, and gothic capitalism's everyday contradictions.Turl's ideas are an incitement, a reckoning - and perhaps even a way forward.- Holly Lewis, author of The Politics of EverybodyA vital critique of the extractive machinery of the contemporary art world... this is not just a diagnosis - it's a call to arms.- Anupam Roy, artistAt once a protest and a clearing of the path forward... a tour de force of Marxist art history.- Jyotsna Kapur, author of The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand IndiaSummons avant-garde artists to break free from a market-driven art world whose institutions permit only capitalist dreams and nightmares -- and to produce art that is truly for the proletariat and its revolution.- Joe Shapiro, author of The Illiberal Imagination", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/52/654/592/9526545923_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.99", "online_price" : "15.99", "our_price" : "15.99", "club_price" : "15.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

Overview

Customers Also Bought

Details