L'arte contemporanea è caleidoscopica: può catapultarci in ambienti complessi o minimali richiedendo la nostra attiva partecipazione, ancorarsi a luoghi particolari, porci di fronte a opere apparentemente indistinguibili da oggetti ed eventi della vita quotidiana, appropriarsi i…
Many people who look at art decry it for the lack of craft skill in its production, whether it be painting, photography or sculpture. This work sheds light on this obsolescence of traditional craft skills in contemporary art, exploring the technological and social developments t…
« In this intellectually wide-ranging book John Roberts develops a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art and the expansion of artistic authority in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From Duchamp to Warhol, conceptual art, and t…
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 artwo…
"Conceptual art was one of the most influential art movements of the second half of the twentieth century. In this book Alexander Alberro traces its origins to the mid-1960s, when its principles were first articulated by the artists Dan Graham, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Lawrenc…