Toys Redux by Raphael Gygax

Toys Redux by Raphael Gygax

Gathering works by Cory Arcangel, Alex Bag & Patterson Beckwith, Judith Bernstein, Vittorio Brodmann, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Simon Denny, Harun Farocki, Tabor Robak and many others, this publication brings together artists who use pop-culture formats and imagery usually addressed to children or teenagers. This adoption of such motifs should not be seen merely as a reference to (or appropriation of) popular culture: rather, it becomes an implicit (or explicit) critique of a kind of capitalist production of consumer worlds that have also infiltrated the field of art. These playful children's or fantasy worlds, with their pop aesthetic and inherent promise of innocence, contrast with the reality of these neoliberal advertising and market strategies. The publication includes essays by critic Esther Buss, professor Alexander R. Galloway, and art historian and philosopher Hans Ulrich Reck, among others, as well as interviews with the artists.

Gygax, Raphael: - Raphael Gygax is a Zurich-based writer, art historian, curator, and director of the BA Program in Art and Media at Zurich University of the Arts. He was a curator at Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zurich through 2019.

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Title	Toys Redux
Author	Raphael Gygax
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Publisher	JRP Ringier
Year published	2015-10-08
Number of pages	264
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