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Art and Labour: On the Hostility to Handicraft, Aesthetic Labour and the Politics of Work in Art - Beech, Dave
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This book provides a ground breaking re-examination of the changing relationship between art, craft, and industry focusing on the transition from workshop to studio, apprentice to pupil, guild to gallery and artisan to artist. Responding to the question whether the artist is a relic of the feudal mode of production or is a commodity producer corresponding to the capitalist mode of cultural production, Beech reveals, instead, that the history of the formation of art as distinct from handicraft, commerce, and industry can be ...

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Art and Labour: On the Hostility to Handicraft, Aesthetic Labour and the Politics of Work in Art 2021, Haymarket Books

ISBN-13: 9781642594232

Trade paperback

Art and Labour: On the Hostility to Handicraft, Aesthetic Labour and the Politics of Work in Art 2020, Brill

ISBN-13: 9789004321519

Hardcover