Wages against artwork : decommodified labor and the claims of socially engaged art /
La Berge, Leigh Claire,
Wages against artwork : decommodified labor and the claims of socially engaged art / Leigh Claire La Berge. - xiii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Art student, art worker : the decommodified labor of studentdom -- Institutions as art : the collective forms of decommodified labor -- Art worker animal : animals as socially engaged artists in a post-labor era -- The artwork of children's labor : socially engaged art and the future of work.
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 Wages Against Artwork Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially engaged art responds to and critiques what she calls decommodified labor-the slow diminishment of wages alongside an increase in the demands of work. Outlining the ways in which socially engaged artists relate to work, labor, and wages, La Berge examines how artists and organizers create institutions to address their own and others' financial precarity; why the increasing role of animals and children in contemporary art points to the turn away from paid labor; and how the expansion of MFA programs and student debt helps create the conditions for decommodified labor. In showing how socially engaged art operates within and against the need to be paid for work, La Berge offers a new theorization of the relationship between art and contemporary capitalism.
9781478004233 1478004231 9781478004820 1478004827
2018055384
2000-2099
Social practice (Art)
Art and social action.
Art and society.
Art--Study and teaching--Social aspects.
Art--Economic aspects.
Artists--Political activity--History--21st century.
Artists and community.
N7433.915 / .L34 2019
Wages against artwork : decommodified labor and the claims of socially engaged art / Leigh Claire La Berge. - xiii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Art student, art worker : the decommodified labor of studentdom -- Institutions as art : the collective forms of decommodified labor -- Art worker animal : animals as socially engaged artists in a post-labor era -- The artwork of children's labor : socially engaged art and the future of work.
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 Wages Against Artwork Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially engaged art responds to and critiques what she calls decommodified labor-the slow diminishment of wages alongside an increase in the demands of work. Outlining the ways in which socially engaged artists relate to work, labor, and wages, La Berge examines how artists and organizers create institutions to address their own and others' financial precarity; why the increasing role of animals and children in contemporary art points to the turn away from paid labor; and how the expansion of MFA programs and student debt helps create the conditions for decommodified labor. In showing how socially engaged art operates within and against the need to be paid for work, La Berge offers a new theorization of the relationship between art and contemporary capitalism.
9781478004233 1478004231 9781478004820 1478004827
2018055384
2000-2099
Social practice (Art)
Art and social action.
Art and society.
Art--Study and teaching--Social aspects.
Art--Economic aspects.
Artists--Political activity--History--21st century.
Artists and community.
N7433.915 / .L34 2019