Main entry:

Roberts, John, 1955-

Title & Author:

The intangibilities of form : skill and deskilling in art after the readymade / John Roberts.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2007.

Description:

249 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index.
Introduction : replicants and Cartesians -- The commodity, the readymade and the value-form -- Modernism, repetition and the readymade -- Deskilling, reskilling and artistic labour -- The post-Cartesian artist -- Surrogates, prosthetes and amateurs -- Situational authorship, diffuse aesthetics and network theory -- Art, immaterial labour and the critique of value -- Afterword : reproducibility and the hand.

Summary:

This book elaborates a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art and the modern expansion of the circuits of artitstic authorship. It involves less a discussion of specific artworks than an analysis of the kinds of labor contained in artworks as a reflection on a wider debate about artistic labor and productive and non-productive labor and the limits and possibilites of authorship ... from Preface.

ISBN:

9781844671632 (hbk.)
1844671631 (hbk.)
1844671674 (pbk.)
9781844671670

Subject:

Conceptual art.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Art conceptuel.
Conceptual.
Ästhetik
Concept-art
Konceptkonst.

Form/genre:

Conceptual art.

Added entries:

Skill and deskilling in art after the readymade

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255229
Call No.: BIB 185333
Status: Available