Intangibilities of Form Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade

Name: Intangibilities of Form Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade
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ISBN: 9781844671670

ISBN-10: 1844671674

ISBN-13: 9781844671670

Edition: 2007

Authors: John Roberts

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Rich and groundbreaking study of conceptual art, from Duchamp to Warhol, and its relationship to capitalism. In this intellectually wide-ranging book John Roberts develops a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art and the expansion of artistic authority in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From Duchamp to Warhol, conceptual art, and the "post-visual" practices of the moment, Roberts explores the relationship between artistic labor and productive labor, and the limits and possibilities of authorship. In doing so, he confronts a recurring theme of both conservative and radical detractors of modern art in the twentieth and twenty-first…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 11/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Replicants and Cartesians



The Commodity, the Readymade and the Value-Form



Modernism, Repetition and the Readymade



Deskilling, Reskilling and Artistic Labour



The Post-Cartesian Artist



Surrogates, Prosthetes and Amateurs



Situational Authorship, Diffuse Aesthetics and Network Theory



Art, Immaterial Labour and the Critique of Value


Afterword: Reproducibility and the Hand


Bibliography


Index