Geschmack - Der Gute, Der Schlechte und der Wirklich Teure = Taste - The Good, The Bad, and the Really Expensive

2011

Boek; 150 p ill

Tent. Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 09-07-2011, 09-10-2011. - Groepstentoonstelling onderzoek de verschillende categorieën van de smaak in de beeldende kunst en de massacultuur, in het bijzonder de mode. - Taste: the good, the bad, and the really expensive deals with the question whether common categories of taste are still useful and what significance they have in contemporary art.In the past generations of artists tried to influence society with new ideals of beauty. Taste is devoted to works that challenge the idealistic belief in the moral and social values of aesthetic forms and norms. Chronologically this book starts with an excursion to the time around 1800, when landscape painting was not merely meant to convey pleasure, but also to set moral values.The main focus lies on to the perspectives of contemporary artists such as Katharina Grosse, Martin Parr. John Bock's staging reflects the specific mechanisms of the fashion industry with unusual and absurd fashion creations. He suggests that taste has become now more than ever a category of commercial usability of visual signs

Located in: VRIJETIJDSINDUSTRIE

ISBN: 978-3-86335-046-8

VUBIS: 2:88669