Vince Carducci

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Vince Carducci is a cultural critic and dean emeritus at College for Creative Studies.[1][2] His essays, feature articles and reviews on the arts and culture have appeared in numerous publications since the mid-1980s, including Art and Australia, Art in America, BrandChannel.com, the Journal of Consumer Culture, Logos and Sculpture magazine.[3] Since 2010, he has published the blog Motown Review of Art.

Past assignments include: Detroit correspondent for Artforum, contributing editor and Michigan editor for New Art Examiner and editor of Detroit Focus Quarterly. He has also been a contributing writer for Metro Times, Detroit's leading weekly newspaper, and a staff writer for PopMatters, a webzine of global culture.[3]

Carducci has more than 20 years experience as a marketing executive and branding consultant, including senior vice president and director of marketing and corporate communications for Standard Federal Bank, now part of Bank of America.[4]

From 2012 to 2020, he served as Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. He has also taught at Oakland University and at Wayne State University. In 2008, he coordinated the Critical Studies/Humanities program at Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2010, he received a Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Fellowship,[3] awarded by the Kresge Foundation, for his art criticism.

Carducci has a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and a master's and PhD degrees from the New School for Social Research in New York City. He was born in Detroit in 1953.[5]

Selected works[]

Carducci has written several journal articles, some of which are listed below.

  • Detroit: The Dream is Now: The Design, Art, and Resurgence of an American City, Michigan Historical Review, Vol.43, Iss.2, pp. 81-82, Central Michigan University, 2017.[6]
  • Warhol, Andy, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies, John Wikey & Sons, Ltd., 2015.[6]
  • The art of the common: Envisioning real utopias in postindustrial Detroit, The New School, 2014.[7]
  • Radical Consumption: Shopping for Change in Contemporary Culture, Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol.9, Iss.3, pp. 422-424, Sage Publications, Inc., 2009.[6]
  • Cultural jamming: A sociological perspective, Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol.6, Iss.1, pp. 116-138, Sage Publications, 2006.[8]
  • Confidence Games on Canal Street: The Market for Knockoffs in New York City, Consumers, Commodities, & Consumption, Vol.6, Iss.2, 2005.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ Manlow, Veronica (2009). Designing Clothes: Culture and Organization of the Fashion Industry. Transaction Publishers. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4128-1055-5. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
  2. ^ "Vince Carducci". College for Creative Studies. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
  3. ^ a b c "Kresge Arts in Detroit". 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  4. ^ Ernest W. Baker (1999). A 50-year adventure in the advertising business. Wayne State University Press. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-8143-2910-8. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
  5. ^ "Vince Carducci | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
  6. ^ a b c "Vince Carducci". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
  7. ^ "The art of the common: Envisioning real utopias in postindustrial Detroit - ProQuest". search.proquest.com. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
  8. ^ Carducci, Vince (2006-03-01). "Culture Jamming: A Sociological Perspective". Journal of Consumer Culture. 6 (1): 116–138. doi:10.1177/1469540506062722. ISSN 1469-5405. S2CID 145164048.
  9. ^ "Confidence Games on Canal Street". csrn.camden.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
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