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Author Beech, Dave, author.

Title Art and labour : on the hostility to handicraft, aesthetic labour and the politics of work in art / by Dave Beech.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (x, 304 pages).
text file
Series Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 213
Historical materialism book series ; v. 213.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Art, Labour and Abstraction -- 2. Arts, Fine Arts and Art in General -- 3. Guild, Court and Academy -- 4. Salon, Museum and Exhibition -- 5. Mechanic, Genius and Artist -- 6. Aesthetic Labour -- 7. Attractive Labour -- 8. Alienated Labour -- 9. Nonalienated Labour -- 10. The Critique of Labour -- Conclusion.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Art and society.
Art and society.
Art and craft debate.
Art and craft debate.
Art and industry.
Work.
Art and industry.
Work.
labor.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Title Art and labor
Other Form: Print version: Beech, Dave. Art and labour. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9789004321519 (DLC) 2020012731 (OCoLC)1143640683
ISBN 9789004321526 electronic book
9004321527 electronic book
9789004321519 hardback