Death of the Artist - Art World Dissidents and Their Alternative Identities

There exists a series of contemporary artists who continually defy the traditional role of the artist/author, including Art & Language, Guerrilla Girls, Bob and Roberta Smith, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Lucky PDF. In Death of the Artist , Nicola McCartney explores their work and uses previously unpublished interviews to provoke a vital and nuanced discussion about contemporary artistic authorship. How do emerging artists navigate intellectual property or work collectively and share the recognition? How might a pseudonym aid 'artivism'? Most strikingly, she demonstrates how an alternative identity can challenge the art market and is symptomatic of greater cultural and political rebellion. As such, this book exposes the art world's financially incentivised infrastructures, but also examines how they might be reshaped from within. In an age of cuts to arts funding and forced self-promotion, this offers an important analysis of the pressing need for the artistic community to construct new ways to reinvent itself and incite fresh responses to its work.

About the author

Nicola McCartney is an artist and educator. She is a lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Nicola McCartney, McCartney Nicola
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2018
• EAN: 9781784534141
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-414-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art; International Library of Moder; International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art; International Library of Moder
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Kunstgeschichte, Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Kunsttheorie, Theory of art, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics, Art & design styles: from c 1960