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1st Edition

Art and Capitalism A Contemporary Perspective

Edited By Danielle Child Copyright 2027

360 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

A central tenet of capitalism is the production of commodities to create profit (money); as such, the logical starting place for this companion is the relationship of art to these foundational elements of capitalism. However, as the　contributions to the volume reveal, capitalism encompasses more than just an economic system in which art is bought and sold alongside other goods. This volume... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Art Markets, Money and Myths

1. Art and Craft

Dave Beech

2. Antwerp As the Early Capital of Capitalism

Larry Silver

3. The Green Side of the Landscape

Matt Browning

4. Taxing the Art Resale Market: A Proposal for Regulating the Field

Nizan Shaked

5. What Keeps Capitalism Alive? On Intellectual Paradigms, Art, and Hegemony

Angela Dimitrakaki

Part Two: Work, Labour and the Artist

6. The Contingent Art Worker

Laura Harris

7. Race and inequality in the contemporary craft economy

Karen Seaward-Patel

8. Assembling Economies: The collaborative work of Barbara Steveni 1960s-1990s

Katherine Jackson

9. The Artist without Work: Li Liao and the Critique of the Capitalist Work Ethic

Linzhi Zhang

10. Beyond the Guest List: Dark Matter and Class Relations in Contemporary Art Gregory Sholette

Part Three: Capitalist Technologies

11. ‘Call Me a Thinker-Tinker:’ On Racial Capitalism, Technology, and Black Arts in the United States

Brian Bartell

12. Forensic Oceanography’s Composite Images, ‘Counter-Forensics’ and Militant Research

Antigoni Memou

13. AI, artists and residencies. Capitalism and criticality

Tom Schofield

14. Technospheric Speculations: Materiality, Textuality and Impropriety

Adam Walker

Part Four: Spaces of Art and Capital: Institutions and Beyond

15. Curating distinction? The ambivalent role of private art museums as instruments of elite reproduction

Kristina Kolbe, Olav Velthuis, Johannes Aengenheyster, Sara de Andrade Silva and Andrea Friedmann Rozenbaum

16. Giardini as Commons

Kuba Szreder

17. Misavowal: documenta fifteen and the Rhetoric of Power in Global Culture

John Zarobell

18. What’s (in) a case? Museum, Care, and Capital

Elke Krasny

19. From Acquisition Agreements to Certificates of Usership: How Theory Becomes Practice and Transforms Museum Collection Strategies

Alessandra Saviotti

Part Five: Crisis, Contestation and Critique

20. Which side are you on? 1 Ultra-red, Unión de Vecinos and (Anti-)Capitalist Life

Kirsten Lloyd

21. J14 – Contemporary Israeli Art and Capitalist Critique

Mor Cohen

22. From Resistance to Worlds Otherwise: Art against Extractivism

Paula Serafini

23. Unlearning colonial silences and undoing colonial capitalism: Truth-telling through creative practice on Yamaji Country

Amy Spiers

24. If chicken could talk: Collaborative economic learning and organising connected to rural and more-than-capitalist concepts and lived experience across the Rural School of Economics

Kathrin Böhm from Myvillages

Editor(s)

Biography

Danielle Child is an art historian and Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester. She is author of Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (2019).

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