Art and Labour - (Historical Materialism Book) by Dave Beech (Paperback)
Similar Products
Products of same category from the store
All
Product info
<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Deutscher Prize winning artist and writer Dave Beech turns his attention to what it means to view Art as work.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book provides a ground-breaking re-examination 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, Beech 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 essential 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.</p><p><br></p><p>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 (Brill, 2015) and Art and Postcapitalism (Pluto, 2019).</p><p><br></p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Dave Beech</strong>, 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).</p>
Price History
Price Archive shows prices from various stores, lets you see history and find the cheapest. There is no actual sale on the website. For all support, inquiry and suggestion messagescommunication@pricearchive.us