The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade« 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 the "post-visual" practices of the moment, Roberts explores the relationship between artistic labor and productive labor, and the limits and possibilities of authorship. In doing so, he confronts a recurring theme of both conservative and radical detractors of modern art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: how is skill, and the seeming absence of skill in modern art, to be theorized and evaluated? Drawing on cognitive psychology, labor process theory, social anthropology, and debates in contemporary political philosophy, Roberts' book establishes a new critical topography for examining the cultural form of art today. »-- |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Replicants and Cartesians | 9 |
The Commodity the Readymade and the ValueForm | 21 |
Copyright | |
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Adorno aesthetic Art & Language art's artisanal artistic authorship artistic labour artistic skill artistic subjectivity artistic technique autonomy avant-garde become blague capitalism capitalist Cartesian circuits of authorship cognitive collaborative collective authorship commodity complex labour Conceptual art convergence copying without copying craft of reproducibility creative Critical Art Ensemble critique of authorship curator defence Dennett deskilling division of labour Duchamp Duchampian Duve early avant-garde El Lissitzky emancipation of labour emergent function hand haptic heteronomous heteronomous labour Ibid identity immaterial labour interaction judgement kind labour process labour theory law of value London machines Marcel Duchamp Marx Marx's materials means modernist Moholy-Nagy museum non-artistic non-productive labour notion object painterly painting political post-conceptualism productive labour prosthetic reflection relationship sense skill and deskilling social technique studio surrogacy surrogate technical division theory of culture thinking totipotentiality traditional transformation unassisted readymades use-values value-form waged labour Warhol workers world knowledge Zukofsky