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Art and Labour
On the Hostility to Handicraft, Aesthetic Labour and the Politics of Work in Art
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See moreDeutscher Prize winning artist and writer Dave Beech turns his attention to what it means to view Art as work.
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This book provides a groundbreaking re-examination of the changing relationship between art, craft, and industry, focusing on the transition from workshop to studio, apprentice to pupil, guild to gallery, and artisan to artist.
Responding to the question of whether the artist is a relic of the feudal mode of production or is a commodity producer corresponding to the capitalist mode of cultural production, Beech reveals, instead, that the history of the formation of art as distinct from handicraft, commerce, and industry can be traced back to the dissolution of the dual system of guild and court.
Art and Labour argues that this essential history needs to be revisited in order to rethink the categories of aesthetic labour, attractive labour, alienated labour, non-alienated labour, and unwaged labour that shape the modern and contemporary politics of work in art.
Series: Historical Materialism Book Series
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Art and Labour
This book provides a groundbreaking re-examination of the changing relationship between art, craft, and industry, focusing on the transition from workshop to studio, apprentice to pupil, guild to gallery, and artisan to artist. Responding to the question of whether the artist is a relic of the feudal mode of production or is a commodity producer corresponding to the capitalist mode...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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ISBN: 9781642594232
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 July 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Dave Beech, Ph.D., is Reader in Art and Marxism at CCW, University of the Arts, London. He is the author of Art and Value (Haymarket, 2016) and Art and Postcapitalism (Pluto, 2019).
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