Watteau, Diane

Contemporary Art and Fashion: Dreams of Identity and Scopic Drive - 2009.


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When contemporary art incorporates, as entertainment does, elements that constitute the economy of the universe of fashion, it turns art into an indictment of the society of spectacle, cliché, power, knowledge, and sex. Between goods and desire, body parts are produced—an enchantment to counteract castration. Contemporary art assumes the role of that which rights dreams.