Clements The Creative Underground

Arts, Politics and Everyday Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-50128-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

This book examines how the visionary creative ideas of avant-garde and resistant groups, represented by utopian literature and art manifestos, re-invent society. A range of these original texts are critically evaluated in relation to cultural, historical and socio-political contexts and effects, in addition to a variety of artistic and cultural practices. The book underlines their contribution to political ideology, aesthetic theory and public discourse as well as to material leisure practices and everyday life. This re-evaluation of progressive modernist concerns offers enchantment, reinvigorates culture, and presents alternatives to established texts and cultural practices through the terms of active playful leisure. The book teases out the difficult relationship between the individual, culture, and society in relation to marginality while arguing that the creative underground is crucial for a better world, as it offers hope and vital expressions of difference.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clements, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Indigene Kunst, Volkskunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introducing the creative underground

2 Utopia

3 Manifestos

4 The avant-garde, autonomy and wider participation

5 Creative resistance: counterculture, subculture and counterpublics

6 Heterotopia, Bohemia and vignettes of creative underground practices

7 Work, play and a post-work scenario

8 Everyday life

9 Concluding words.

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Clements is a Lecturer at several London universities including Goldsmiths College, London, UK. His interest in culture includes a range of themes, specifically surrounding the art of the excluded, social exclusion and resistant culture.