Main entry:

Cras, Sophie, author.

Title & Author:

The artist as economist : art and capitalism in the 1960s / Sophie Cras ; translated from the French by Malcolm DeBevoise.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

x, 234 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
The present volume is a translation, with revisions, of L' économie à l'épreuve de l'art: art et capitalisme dans les années 1960 (Les presses du réel, 2018).
Some information on title page verso in English and French.
"French voices"--Jacket cover page 4
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Valuing the invaluable -- Currency as convention -- Speculation as spectacle -- Circuits of commerce.
In English; translated from the French.

Summary:

"Bearing witness to the changing economic landscape amid the Cold War, artists in the 1960s created works that critiqued, reshaped, and sometimes reinforced the spirit of capitalism. At a time when currency and finance were becoming ever more abstracted-and the art market increasingly an arena for speculation-artists on both sides of the Atlantic turned to economic themes, often grounded in a human context. 'The Artist as Economist' examines artists who approached these issues in critical, imaginative, and humorous ways: Andy Warhol and Larry Rivers incorporated the iconography of printed currency into their paintings, while Ray Johnson sought to disrupt and reinvent circuits of commerce with his mail art collages. Yves Klein and Edward Kienholz critiqued conceptions of artistic and monetary value, as Lee Lozano and Dennis Oppenheim engaged directly with the New York Stock Exchange. Such examples, which author Sophie Cras insightfully situates within their historic economic context, reveal capitalism's visual dimension. As art and economics grow more entangled, this volume offers a timely consideration of art's capacity to reflect on and reimagine economic systems." -- Publisher's description

ISBN:

9780300232707 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0300232705 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Art Economic aspects History 20th century.
Art as an investment History 20th century.
Art and business History 20th century.
Money in art.
Art Aspect économique Histoire 20e siècle.
Art comme valeur de placement Histoire 20e siècle.
Art et affaires Histoire 20e siècle.
Art Economic aspects 20th century.
Art and business
Art as an investment
Art Economic aspects

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

DeBevoise, M. B., translator.
Cras, Sophie. Économie à l'épreuve de l'art : art et capitalisme dans les années 1960. English.

Art and capitalism in the 1960s

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307124
Call No.: BIB 252631
Status: Available