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 centuries: how is skill, and the seeming absence of skill in modern art, to be theorized and evaluated? Drawing on cognitive psychology, labor process theory, social anthropology, and debates in contemporary political philosophy, Roberts‘ book establishes a new critical topography for examining the cultural form of art today.' - from back cover.
Onsite
English
art theory,  art production,  conceptualism
2007
249
9781844781670
1
monograph
Introduction: Replicants and Cartesians
1 The Commodity, the Readymade and the Value-Form
2 Modernism, Repetition and the Redadymade
3 Deskilling, Reskilling and Artistic Labour
4 The Post-Cartesian Artist
5 Surrogates, Prosthetes and Amateurs
6 Situational Authorship, Diffuse Aesthetics and Network Theory
7 Art, Immaterial Labour and the Critique of Value
Afterword: Reproducibility and the Hand
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