Art and Labour - On the Hostility to Handicraft, Aesthetic Labour and the Politics of Work in Art

Deutscher Prize winning artist and writer Dave Beech turns his attention to what it means to view Art as work.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Art, Labour and Abstraction
2 Arts, Fine Arts and Art in General
3 Guild, Court and Academy
4 Salon, Museum and Exhibition
5 Mechanic, Genius and Artist
6 Aesthetic Labour
7 Attractive Labour
8 Alienated Labour
9 Nonalienated Labour
10 The Critique of Labour
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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).

Summary

Deutscher Prize winning artist and writer Dave Beech turns his attention to what it means to view Art as work.

Product details

• Authors: Dave Beech
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.07.2021
• EAN: 9781642594232
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-423-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Historical Materialism; Historical Materialism Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations