Dark Matter Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture

Name: Dark Matter Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture
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ISBN: 9780745327525

ISBN-10: 0745327524

ISBN-13: 9780745327525

Edition: 2010

Authors: Gregory Sholette

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Art is big business, with some artists able to command huge sums of money for their works, while the vast majority are ignored or dismissed by critics. This book shows that these marginalised artists, the 'dark matter' of the art world, are essential to the survival of the mainstream and that they frequently organize in opposition to it. Gregory Sholette, a politically engaged artist, argues that imagination and creativity in the art world originate thrive in the non-commercial sector shut off from prestigious galleries and champagne receptions. This broader creative culture feeds the mainstream with new forms and styles that can be commodified and used to sustain the few artists admitted…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 11/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.06" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Gregory Sholette is an artist, writer, cofounder of REPOhistory artists' collective and Batza Family Chair of Art and Art History at Colgate University.



Series Preface


Acknowledgments


Exordium: An Accidental Remainder


Introduction: The Missing Mass



Art, Politics, Dark Matter: Nine Prologues



The Grin of the Archive



History That Disturbs the Present



Temporary Services



Glut, Overproduction, Redundancy!



The Unnamable



Mockstitutions



Conclusions: Nights of Amateurs


Notes


Bibliography


Appendix: Artists' Groups Survey 2008


Index