Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism
Title | Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | Bojana Kunst |
Publisher | John Hunt Publishing |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2015-08-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1785350013 |
The main affirmation of artistic practice must today happen through thinking about the conditions and the status of the artist's work. Only then can it be revealed that what is a part of the speculations of capital is not art itself, but mostly artistic life. Artist at Work examines the recent changes in the labour of an artist and addresses them from the perspective of performance.
Working Aesthetics
Title | Working Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | Danielle Child |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2019-01-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1350022373 |
Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the proximity of work to everyday life has subsequently narrowed the gap between work and art. The artist is no longer considered apart from the economic, but is heralded as an example of how to work in neoliberal management textbooks. As work and life become obscured within the contemporary period, this book asks how artistic practice is affected, including those who labour for artists. Through a series of case studies, Working Aesthetics critically examines the moments in which labour and art intersect under capitalism. When did labour disappear from art production, or accounts of art history? Can we consider the dematerialization of art in the 1960s in relation to the deskilling of work? And how has neoliberal management theory adopting the artist as model worker affected artistic practices in the 21st century? With the narrowing of work and art visible in galleries and art discourse today, Working Aesthetics takes a step back to ask why labour has become a valid subject for contemporary art, and explores what this means for aesthetic culture today.
The Artist as Economist
Title | The Artist as Economist PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Cras |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2019-11-05 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300232705 |
This groundbreaking examination of the intersection between artistic practice and capitalism in the 1960s explores art's capacity to reflect on and reimagine economic systems and our place within them.
Delirium and Resistance
Title | Delirium and Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Sholette |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780745336886 |
Draws on thirty years of critical debates and practices by artists and activist groups to advocate the undermining of capitalism through art
Culture Strike
Title | Culture Strike PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Raicovich |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2021-12-14 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1839760524 |
A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm In an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire. Protestors have mobilized against sources of museum funding, as happened at the Metropolitan Museum, and against board appointments, forcing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders to resign at the Whitney. That is to say nothing of demonstrations against exhibitions and artworks. Protests have roiled institutions across the world, from the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim to the Akron Art Museum. A popular expectation has grown that galleries and museums should work for social change. As Director of the Queens Museum, Laura Raicovich helped turn that New York muni- cipal institution into a public commons for art and activism, organizing high-powered exhibitions that doubled as political protests. Then in January 2018, she resigned, after a dispute with the Queens Museum board and city officials. This public controversy followed the museum’s responses to Donald Trump’s election, including her objections to the Israeli government using the museum for an event featuring Vice President Mike Pence. In this lucid and accessible book, Raicovich examines some of the key museum flashpoints and provides historical context for the current controversies. She shows how art museums arose as colonial institutions bearing an ideology of neutrality that masks their role in upholding conservative, capitalist values. And she suggests ways museums can be reinvented to serve better, public ends.
Art and Labour
Title | Art and Labour PDF eBook |
Author | Dave Beech |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2020-06-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9004321527 |
This book provides a new history of the changing relationship between art, craft and industry focusing and a new political theory of the categories of aesthetic labour, attractive labour, alienated labour, nonalienated labour and unwaged labour.
The Lonely City
Title | The Lonely City PDF eBook |
Author | Olivia Laing |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2016-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1250039576 |
There is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. This roving cultural history of urban loneliness centers on the ultimate city: Manhattan, that teeming island of gneiss, concrete, and glass. How do we connect with other people, particularly if our sexuality or physical body is considered deviant or damaged? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens? Laing travels deep into the work and lives of some of the century's most original artists in a celebration of the state of loneliness.