| Art and Labour: On the Hostility to Handicraft, Aesthetic Labour and the Politics of Work in Art Contributor(s): Beech (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004321519 ISBN-13: 9789004321519 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $163.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Physical Information: 316 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book provides a new history 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 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, this inquiry 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. This history needs to be revisited in order to rethink the categories of aesthetic labour, attractive labour, alienated labour, nonalienated labour and unwaged labour that shape the modern and contemporary politics of work in art. |