Journal #15

Creativity in Consumer Culture

Edited by James P. O’Brien & Greg Russell

Contents:

The Art Guys with Todd Oldham
Suits: The Clothes Make the Man.
with commentary by James P. O’Brien & Greg Russell

James P. O’Brien
The Pre-Drawn Thing:
Self-Accusation (after Peter Handke) or,
The Work of Art in the Age of Selection from Among Manufacturers’ Manufactured Differences

Ellen Dunham-Jones
Stars, Swatches and Sweets: Thoughts on Post-Fordist Production and the Star System in Architecture

Kazys Varnelis with Chip Minnick, Mimi Zeiger and Michael Pinto
The Caress of the Commodity: On Autonomy, Compromise, and Other Possible Positions in Architecture

Carol Burns with Charlie Cannon & Gretchen Schneider
Land is not a Consumer Good

Gerdur Sigfusson
This Wonderful World of Mobile Home Living

Frank Valdes
HAVANA - the Fragrance of Revolution: Revolution and Consumption in Postmodern Cuban Culture

Peter Laurence
Home Depot Tablo (works seen throughout the issue)

Michael Rakowitz
Publically Acquired, Privately Owned

Medina Lasansky
Legislating Kitsch: The Plastic Lawn Flamingo, Portrait of a Commodity

Guillaume Paris
Towards a Global People’s Museum: The New Perishable Gallery

NOTE: this journal is out of print.

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