Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System

Global Perspectives in Spanish and Portuguese
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-71456-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 487 g

Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

The main objective of this book is to explain how contemporary literatures in Spanish and Portuguese are dealing with artistic creativity when artmaking is no longer a specialised field of cultural production, but rather an expanded field of socioeconomic interaction, personal and creative self-definition and collective imagination. The project positions the contemporary art novel as the most suitable place to understand how the economisation of cultural labour is affecting writers and artists alike. The authors examined in this book, including José Saramago, Rita Indiana Hernández, María Gainza, Mayra Santos Febres and Ondjaki (amongst others) explore the contradictions of the art market, the dynamics of art education, the multifaceted activity of curators and socially engaged artists in relation to broader debates on the role of culture in the configuration of socioeconomic dynamics. The book maps a new trend within contemporary literature that taps into the visual art system to reassess the role of literature in critical ways.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garrido Castellano, Carlos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstförderung, Mäzenatentum, Auktionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction. Art F(r)ictions: Assessing the Contemporary Art Novel

Section 1: Do We Live in Neoliberal Art Worlds?

Chapter 2 The Aesthetics of Narcocapitalist Politics

Chapter 3 Art Economies and Energy Colonialism, Luanda Version

Section 2: Literature and Artistic Subjectivity: Expertise, Entrepreneurialism, Activism.

Chapter 4 Redefining Artistic Expertise in Pre- and Post-Crisis Portugal

Chapter 5 "Killing Several Birds with One Stone": Art Activism and Financial Speculation in the Dominican Republic

Section 3: The Contemporary Art Novel: Forms, Uses, Formations

Chapter 6 The Novel after Art Theory: Neoliberalism as Reterritorialization in the Spanish State

Chapter 7 The Phenomenology of the Art Novel

Chapter 8 The Transdividual Art Novel

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carlos Garrido Castellano is Lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland.