The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new
forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. In …

Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary
capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the proximity …

A novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern
culture, this book looks at American poetry and art of the last fifty years in light of the massive …

This book provides a new history of the changing relationship between art, craft and industry
focusing on the transition from workshop to studio, apprentice to pupil, guild to gallery and …

Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of'attractive labour', and Marxist
theories of'nonalienated labour', but the rise of the anti-work movement and current theories …

The Object of Labor explores the personal, political, social, and economic meaning of work
in the context of art and textile production. The ubiquity of cloth in everyday life, the …

In 9.5 Theses on Art and Class, Ben Davis takes on a broad array of contemporary art's most
persistent debates: How does creative labor fit into the economy? Is art merging with fashion …

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In our chaotic world of co-opted imagery, does art still have power? A fog of images and
information permeates the world nowadays: from advertising, television, radio, and film to …

Political economy is a theme both explicit and submerged in modernist and postmodernist
art. Art production is founded in the gift. The author historicizes artistic representations of …