Artistic Labour of the Body

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74649-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 368, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

Artistic Labour of the Body examines VALIE EXPORT's and Elfriede Jelinek's use of the body and psyche as artistic material to explore Adorno’s concept of artistic labour. By deploying the body as artistic material, their works challenge women’s reduction to reproductive function or sexual object, articulating a feminism beyond "innocence". Gush demonstrates how their art critiqued postwar Austria’s culture of disavowal, where unprocessed legacies of Nazism perpetuated Austria’s victimhood myth, while also exploring the complex identifications within this critique. The book reframes postwar artistic practices that revealed the body as both a site of patriarchal-capitalist violence and of resistance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gush, Rose-Anne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Über Autor(innen)

Rose-Anne Gush is an art historian and theorist whose work explores the political aesthetics of the body and notions of artistic labour, gender and feminism(s), and theories of "global art". Her research engages with the spatial politics of capitalism, geographies of extraction, and questions of form. She is currently Assistant Professor at IZK – Institute for Contemporary Art at TU Graz.