The Creative Underground: Art, Politics and Everyday Life, 1st Edition eBook

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Paul Clements champions the creative underground and expressions of difference through visionary avant-garde and resistant ideas. This is represented by an admixture of utopian literature, manifestos and lifestyles which challenge normality and attempt to reinvent society, as practiced for example, by radicals in bohemian enclaves or youth subcultures. He showcases a range of ‘art’ and participatory cultural practices that are examined sociopolitically and historically, employing key theoretical ideas which highlight their contribution to aesthetic thinking, political ideology, and public discourse. A reevaluation of the arts and progressive modernism can reinvigorate culture through active leisure and post-work possibilities beyond materialism and its constraints, thereby presenting alternatives to established understandings and everyday cultural processes. The book teases out the difficult relationship between the individual, culture and society especially in relation to autonomy and marginality, while arguing that the creative underground is crucial for a better world, as it offers enchantment, vitality and hope.

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The Creative Underground: Art, Politics and Everyday Life 1st Edition is written by Paul Clements and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for The Creative Underground are 9781317501282, 1317501284 and the print ISBNs are 9781138886865, 1138886866. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780367872878, 9781315714530, 9781317501275, 9781317501299.