Research Catalog

Title

Economy : Art, production and the subject in the twenty-first century / edited and with an introduction by Angela Dimitrakaki and Kirsten Lloyd.

Publication

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2015]

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Additional Authors

• Dimitrakaki, Angela, 1968-
• Lloyd, Kirsten

Description

xvi, 236 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

Based on substantial curatorial and academic research, the book proposes a new narrative for art produced globally from the 1990s to the present day: that art gradually shifted from an emphasis on cultural subjects associated with postmodernism to an exploration of economic relations. In an extensive Introduction, the editors and curators of the group exhibition ECONOMY (Edinburgh and Glasgow, 2013) outline the main argument, by examining the socio-economic context which led to the explosion of globalisation as crisis in 2008 as well as selected theorisations of that context and contemporary art. The essays in the volume, drawn from art theory, social studies and political economy, elucidate, enrich and complicate the core thesis. Themes addressed in the book include the relationship between art and property, the rise and contentious status of immaterial labour, socially engaged art and the exchanges between art and life, the role of gender and sexuality in the social relations and labour regimes instituted by capital today (including in the art world), the Occupy Movement, past figurations of the economy in a socialist imaginary embracing art, critical approaches to the commons, the migrant subject and a contemporary avant-garde. The essays illustrate the heightened interest of art after postmodernism in how we produce, rather than how consume, the signal elements in the confrontation between capital and labour that has come to define the passage from the 20th to the 21st century.

Series Statement

Value: Art: Politics ; 11

Uniform Title

Value, art, politics ; 11.

Subject

• Globalization in art
• Art and globalization
• Consumption (Economics) in art
• Politics in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-231) and index.

Call Number

JQE 15-37

ISBN

• 9781781381380
• 1781381380

OCLC

909472856

Title

Economy : Art, production and the subject in the twenty-first century / edited and with an introduction by Angela Dimitrakaki and Kirsten Lloyd.

Publisher

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Value: Art: Politics ; 11

Value, art, politics ; 11.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-231) and index.

Added Author

Dimitrakaki, Angela, 1968- editor.

Lloyd, Kirsten, editor.

Research Call Number

JQE 15-37