Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie
Class Hegemony in Contemporary Art
ed. by Nav Haq and Tirdad Zolghadr ; contributors Neil Cummings, Chris Evans, Marion von Osten ...[et al.]

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Author(s)

Neil Cumming, Chris Evans, Marion von Osten, ...[et al.]

Editor(s)

Nav Haq ;Tirdad Zolghadr

Publication

Berlinn : Sternberg Press, 2009

Scope

176 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

9781933128887

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Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie investigates the latent issue of class underlying the field of contemporary visual art. Class inevitably raises awkward questions regarding the very participants, their backgrounds, patrons, and ideological partialities. This is perhaps the reason why the role of class structure has been so easily overlooked in the production and presentation of contemporary art, especially so in an era where artists are coaxed into anthropological framings of their practice. What was it that made gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and nationality eclipse the class issue with such ease?

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Person as subject

Annika Eriksson, Chris Evans, Sylvie Fleury, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, San Keller, Hassan Khan ; Dirk Fleischmann / Michele Di Menna, Marion von Osten Erkan Özgen & Sener Özmen, Anup Mathew Thomas

Keywords

critical aesthetics , multiculturality

Location

Cabinet 29 - 3: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Algemeen

Remarks

Incl. Biographies.