The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade - Couverture souple

Roberts, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844671674 ISBN 13 : 9781844671670

Editeur : Verso Books, 2007

Synopsis

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 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. His books include The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday; The Philistine Controversy (with Dave Beech), Philosophizing the Everyday, and The Necessity of Errors. He is also a contributor to Radical Philosophy, Oxford Art Journal, Historical Materialism, Third Text, and Cabinet magazine. He lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844671674
• ISBN 13: 9781844671670
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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