La Berge Wages Against Artwork

Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0527-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially engaged art responds to and critiques what she calls decommodified labor—the slow diminishment of wages alongside an increase of demands of work—as a way to work toward social justice and economic equality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

La Berge, Leigh Claire

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstförderung, Mäzenatentum, Auktionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The Argument ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Socially Engaged Art and Decommodified Labor 1
1. Art Student, Art Worker: The Decommodified Labor of Studentdom 34
2. Institutions as Art: The Collective Forms of Decommodified Labor 75
3. Art Worker Animal: Animals as Socially Engaged Artists in a Post-Labor Era 118
4. The Artwork of Children's Labor: Socially Engaged Art and the Future of Work 157
Epilogue: Liberal Arts 198
Notes 205
Bibliography 239
Index 249

Über Autor(innen)

Leigh Claire La Berge is Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, author of Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s, and coeditor of Reading Capitalist Realism.