{"product_id":"gaga-aesthetics-adam-geczy-9781350102699","title":"Gaga Aesthetics: Art, Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Up-Ending of Tradition","description":"Pop art has traditionally been the most visible visual art within popular culture because its main transgression is easy to understand: the infiltration of the \"low\" into the \"high\". The same cannot be said of contemporary art of the 21st century, where the term \"Gaga Aesthetics\" characterizes the condition of popular culture being extensively imbricated in high culture, and vice-versa. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Taking Adorno and Horkheimer's \"The Culture Industry\" and Adorno's \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory\u003c\/i\u003eas key touchstones, this book explores the dialectic of high and low that forms the foundation of Adornian aesthetics and the extent to which it still applied, and the extent to which it has radically shifted, thereby 'upending tradition'. In the tradition of philosophical aesthetics that Adorno began with Luk當s, this explores the ever-urgent notion that high culture has become deeply enmeshed with popular culture. This is \"Gaga Aesthetics\" aesthetics that no longer follows clear fields of activity, where \"fine art\" is but one area of critical activity. Indeed, Adorno's concepts of alienation and the tragic, which inform his reading of the modernist experiment, are now no longer confined to art. Rather, stirring examples can be found in phenomena such as fashion and music video. In addition to dealing with Lady Gaga herself, this book traverses examples ranging from Madonna's Madam X to Moschino and Vetements, to deliberate on the strategies of subversion in the culture industry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350102695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350102699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Adam Geczy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43989184217343,"sku":"9781350102699","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_77512f94-23a2-4394-b927-397254e683cc.jpg?v=1683298053","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gaga-aesthetics-adam-geczy-9781350102699","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}