1st Edition
Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System Global Perspectives in Spanish and Portuguese
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction. Art F(r)ictions: Assessing the Contemporary Art Novel
Section 1: Do We Live in Neoliberal Art Worlds?
Chapter 2 The Aesthetics of Narcocapitalist Politics
Chapter 3 Art Economies and Energy Colonialism, Luanda Version
Section 2: Literature and Artistic Subjectivity: Expertise, Entrepreneurialism, Activism.
Chapter 4 Redefining Artistic Expertise in Pre- and Post-Crisis Portugal
Chapter 5 "Killing Several Birds with One Stone": Art Activism and Financial Speculation in the Dominican Republic
Section 3: The Contemporary Art Novel: Forms, Uses, Formations
Chapter 6 The Novel after Art Theory: Neoliberalism as Reterritorialization in the Spanish State
Chapter 7 The Phenomenology of the Art Novel
Chapter 8 The Transdividual Art Novel
Index
Biography
Carlos Garrido Castellano is Lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland.
An unprecedented study of the art novel’s fascination with the convergence of art and life in our times, when to live like an artist can mean to barely scrape by on contingent work in informal economies, but also to devote oneself to fathoming and fabricating a world beyond privation. With remarkable global breadth, and one wary eye always fixed on art’s incorporation into global capitalism, Carlos Garrido Castellano has written an indispensable book about how literature envisions the unfulfilled promise of artmaking as a model for a flourishing life.
- Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University
