The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. In Wages Against Artwork Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially engaged art responds to and critiques what she calls de...

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1. Verfasser:	La Berge, Leigh Claire (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Durham ; London Duke University Press [2019]
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 2000-2019 Künstler Engagierte Kunst Lohnentwicklung Soziale Gerechtigkeit Arbeitsbedingungen Social practice (Art) Art and social action Art and society Art / Study and teaching / Social aspects Art / Economic aspects Artists / Political activity / History / 21st century Artists and community Artists / Political activity 2000-2099 History
Zusammenfassung:	The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. In Wages Against Artwork Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially engaged art responds to and critiques what she calls decommodified labor--the slow diminishment of wages alongside an increase in the demands of work. Outlining the ways in which socially engaged artists relate to work, labor, and wages, La Berge examines how artists and organizers create institutions to address their own and others' financial precarity; why the increasing role of animals and children in contemporary art points to the turn away from paid labor; and how the expansion of MFA programs and student debt helps create the conditions for decommodified labor. In showing how socially engaged art operates within and against the need to be paid for work, La Berge offers a new theorization of the relationship between art and contemporary capitalism
Beschreibung:	xiii, 261 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:	9781478004233 9781478004820