IRL 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Damien Hirst, Jay Jopling, Kate Moss
24 Jul 2016
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Transmedia promotion globally norm in art and design today, promting across various media platforms. Let things happen, eg us capitalism--market shows winners and losers. Lsa is an insult--idea that you let market dictate your taste, let consumer forces shape your opinion. Implying no specific idea about what is beautiful, no foundations/moral underpinning, no longevity or integrity. From military industrial complex: idea that you keep encouraging war to make more stuff, create conflict to drive business of producing warfare. Celebs endorse, make own product lines, make themselves a brand, find reasons to do more shit - existence of gossip mags. You are institutionalized, stripped of power for social critique. Sv is an english painter, controversial, collected by kate moss. Because in same social circles doing coke, charles saatchi turned sv into a celebrity artist. Claims she"s making celebrity images they happen to like. Afh says still treated as outsider but really that"s a lie.
