Consumer culture & postmodernism

Bibliografie : p. 148-158 Contains the following chapters: `The aestheticization of everyday life', about the effacement of the boundary between art and everyday life, the collapse of the distinction between high art and mass/popular culture in the postmodern society. The other chapter, `city cultures an dpostmodern lifestyles' is about the fade-out of boundaries between the concept of culture as a way of life and culture as the arts. This development has broadened the range of phenomena designated as culture from the arts to take in a wide spectrum of popular and everyday culture in which practically any object or expierence can be deemed to be of cultural interest.