Böcker av Wes Hill

How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics underscores how the cultural traditions, belief systems and performed exchanges that were once integral to the folklore discipline are now central to contemporary art¿s "post-critical turn."

This book examines the complexities of the hipster through the lens of art history and cultural theory, from Charles Baudelaire's flaneur to the contemporary "creative" borne from creative industries policies.

How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics underscores how the cultural traditions, belief systems and performed exchanges that were once integral to the folklore discipline are now central to contemporary art's "post-critical turn."