{"product_id":"artistic-labour-now-isbn-9781915609588","title":"Artistic Labour Now","description":"\u003cb\u003eOn the specificity and generality, materiality and immateriality, production and reproduction of artistic labor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArtistic Labour Now\u003c\/i\u003e sheds light on the specificity of artistic labour in view of an increasingly globalized and digitized art economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these collected essays, art historians, critics, artists, and writers consider emergent possibilities for the production and distribution of art created by recent developments in virtual reality, blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies within today’s immersive media landscape. In this expansive new sphere, notions of value, labour and economy in the broadest sense must be renegotiated, as the lines between specificity and generality, materiality and immateriality, production and reproduction are blurred.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eArtistic Labour Now\u003c\/i\u003e, contributors examine modern and contemporary artistic labour to contemplate the relationship between the value-form of the unique artwork and the subject position of its maker from numerous angles, including Marxist theories of value, feminist theories of reproductive labour and contemporary theories of affective and immaterial labour. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristian Berger, Sabeth Buchmann, Huey Copeland, Aria Dean, Simon Denny, Larisa Dryansky, Sylvia Federici, Isabelle Graw, Josh Kline, Michelle Kuo, Jaleh Mansoor, Friederike SiglerIsabelle Graw is the publisher of the journal \u003ci\u003eTexte zur Kunst\u003c\/i\u003e, which she cofounded with Stefan Germer (1958–1998) in 1990, and professor of art history and art theory at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main. Her previous books include \u003ci\u003eIn Another World: Notes, 2014–2017\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHigh Price: Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Birnbaum is a Swedish art critic, theoretician, and curator. He was the director of the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm from 2010 to 2018, and currently directs the VR company, Acute Art.","brand":"Sternberg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232935850213,"sku":"NP9781915609588","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781915609588.jpg?v=1767721824","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/artistic-labour-now-isbn-9781915609588","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}