The Artist as Economist: Art and Capitalism in the 1960s Cras Sophie
This timely and original study transforms our understanding of the relationship between art and economicsBearing witness to the changing economic landscape amid the Cold War, artists in the 1960s…
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This timely and original study transforms our understanding of the relationship between art and economicsBearing witness to the changing economic landscape amid the Cold War, artists in the 1960s created works that critiqued, reshaped, and sometimes reinforced the spirit of capitalism. At a time when currency and finance were becoming ever more abstracted--and the art market increasingly an arena for speculation--artists on both sides of the Atlantic turned to economic themes, often grounded in a human context. The Artist as Economist examines artists who approached these issues in critical, imaginative, and humorous ways: Andy Warhol and Larry Rivers incorporated the iconography of printed currency into their paintings, while Ray Johnson sought to disrupt and reinvent circuits of commerce with his mail art collages. Yves Klein and Edward Kienholz critiqued
The Artist as Curator
Chichester in the 1960s
Chester in the 1960s