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Beschreibung
In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art - as a passion for self-expression and an activity done out of love, without any concern for its financial aspects - and instead builds a case for understanding art as a form of invisible labour. Focusing on the experiences of art workers and the history of labour regulation in the arts in socialist Yugoslavia, Praznik helps elucidate the contradiction at the heart of artistic production and the origins of the mystification of art as labour.

This profoundly interdisciplinary book highlights the Yugoslav socialist model of culture as the blueprint for uncovering the interconnected aesthetic and economic mechanisms at work in the exploitation of artistic labour. It also shows the historical trajectory of how policies toward art and artistic labour changed by the end of the 1980s. Calling for a fundamental rethinking of the assumptions behind Western art and exploitative labour practices across the world, Art Work will be of interest to scholars in East European studies, art theory, and cultural policy, as well as to practicing artists.

In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art - as a passion for self-expression and an activity done out of love, without any concern for its financial aspects - and instead builds a case for understanding art as a form of invisible labour. Focusing on the experiences of art workers and the history of labour regulation in the arts in socialist Yugoslavia, Praznik helps elucidate the contradiction at the heart of artistic production and the origins of the mystification of art as labour.

This profoundly interdisciplinary book highlights the Yugoslav socialist model of culture as the blueprint for uncovering the interconnected aesthetic and economic mechanisms at work in the exploitation of artistic labour. It also shows the historical trajectory of how policies toward art and artistic labour changed by the end of the 1980s. Calling for a fundamental rethinking of the assumptions behind Western art and exploitative labour practices across the world, Art Work will be of interest to scholars in East European studies, art theory, and cultural policy, as well as to practicing artists.

Zusammenfassung
Katja Praznik is an associate professor in the Department of Media Study/Arts Management Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations

Introduction: The Paradoxical Visibility of Yugoslav Art Workers, or Should Artists Strike?

1. The Autonomy of Art and the Emancipation of Labour

2. A Feminist Approach to the Disavowed Economy of Art

3. The Making of Yugoslav Art Workers: Artistic Labour and the Socialist Institution of Art

4. The Mystification of Artistic Labour under Socialism

5. Art Workers and the Hidden Class Conflict of Late Socialism

6. The Contradictions of 1980s Alternative Art

Conclusion: Post-Yugoslav Dispossession and the Contradictions of Artistic Labour after Socialism

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781487508418
ISBN-10: 1487508417
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Praznik, Katja
Hersteller: University of Toronto Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Abbildungen: 9 b&w illustrations
Maße: 236 x 160 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Katja Praznik
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,48 kg
Artikel-ID: 119388750