Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism Child Danielle
Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism Child Danielle Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism. The artist is no longer considered apart…
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Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism Child Danielle
Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism. The artist is no longer considered apart from the economic, but is heralded as an example of how to work in neoliberal management textbooks. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the proximity of work to everyday life has subsequently narrowed the gap between work and art.
Through a series of case studies, Working Aesthetics critically examines the moments in which labour and art intersect under capitalism. As work and life become obscured within the contemporary period, this book asks how artistic practice is affected, including those who labour for artists. When did labour disappear from art production, or accounts of art history?
Can we consider the dematerialization of art in the 1960s in relation to the deskilling of work? And how has
Art and the Working Class