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The main objective of this book is to explain how contemporary literatures in Spanish and Portuguese are dealing with artistic creativity when artmaking is no longer a specialised field of cultural production, but rather an expanded field of socioeconomic interaction, personal and creative self-definition and collective imagination.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction. Art F(r)ictions: Assessing the Contemporary Art Novel
Section 1: Do We Live in Neoliberal Art Worlds?
Chapter 2 The Aesthetics of Narcocapitalist Politics
Chapter 3 Art Economies and Energy Colonialism, Luanda Version
Section 2: Literature and Artistic Subjectivity: Expertise, Entrepreneurialism, Activism.
Chapter 4 Redefining Artistic Expertise in Pre- and Post-Crisis Portugal
Chapter 5 "Killing Several Birds with One Stone": Art Activism and Financial Speculation in the Dominican Republic
Section 3: The Contemporary Art Novel: Forms, Uses, Formations
Chapter 6 The Novel after Art Theory: Neoliberalism as Reterritorialization in the Spanish State
Chapter 7 The Phenomenology of the Art Novel
Chapter 8 The Transdividual Art Novel
Index
About the author
Carlos Garrido Castellano is Lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland.
Summary
The main objective of this book is to explain how contemporary literatures in Spanish and Portuguese are dealing with artistic creativity when artmaking is no longer a specialised field of cultural production, but rather an expanded field of socioeconomic interaction, personal and creative self-definition and collective imagination.
