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The intangibilities of form : skill and deskilling in art after the readymade

Author:John Roberts

Summary:This book elaborates a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art and the modern expansion of the circuits of artitstic authorship. It involves less a discussion of specific artworks than an analysis of the kinds of labor contained in artworks as a reflection on a wider debate about artistic labor and productive and non-productive labor and the limits and possibilites of authorship ... from Preface

Print Book, English, 2007

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Publisher: Verso, London, 2007

Genre:Conceptual art

Physical Description:249 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9781844671632, 9781844671670, 1844671631, 1844671674

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:154706791

Subjects:

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)

Contents:

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