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Delirious consumption : aesthetics and consumer capitalism in Mexico and Brazil /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Delgado Moya, Sergio (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Border Hispanisms.
Subjects:
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Mexico > 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Brazil > 20th century.
Art and literature > Mexico > 20th century.
Art and literature > Brazil > 20th century.
Consumption (Economics) in art.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : aesthetics in the age of consumer culture. Some terms
  • Attention and distraction : the billboard as mural form
  • Fascination; or, enlightenment in the age of neon light
  • Poetry, replication, late capitalism : Octavio Paz as concrete poet
  • Lygia Clark, at home with objects
  • Conclusion.