Art and Capitalism

Danielle Child is an art historian and Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester. She is author of Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (2019).

• Introduction Part One: Art Markets, Money and Myths 1. Art and Craft 2. Antwerp As the Early Capital of Capitalism 3. The Green Side of the Landscape 4. Taxing the Art Resale Market: A Proposal for Regulating the Field 5. What Keeps Capitalism Alive? On Intellectual Paradigms, Art, and Hegemony Part Two: Work, Labour and the Artist 6. The Contingent Art Worker 7. Race and inequality in the contemporary craft economy 8. Assembling Economies: The collaborative work of Barbara Steveni 1960s-1990s 9. The Artist without Work: Li Liao and the Critique of the Capitalist Work Ethic 10. Beyond the Guest List: Dark Matter and Class Relations in Contemporary Art Part Three: Capitalist Technologies 11. ‘Call Me a Thinker-Tinker:’ On Racial Capitalism, Technology, and Black Arts in the United States 12. Forensic Oceanography’s Composite Images, ‘Counter-Forensics’ and Militant Research 13. AI, artists and residencies. Capitalism and criticality 14. Technospheric Speculations: Materiality, Textuality and Impropriety Part Four: Spaces of Art and Capital: Institutions and Beyond 15. Curating distinction? The ambivalent role of private art museums as instruments of elite reproduction 16. Giardini as Commons 17. Misavowal: documenta fifteen and the Rhetoric of Power in Global Culture 18. What’s (in) a case? Museum, Care, and Capital 19. From Acquisition Agreements to Certificates of Usership: How Theory Becomes Practice and Transforms Museum Collection Strategies Part Five: Crisis, Contestation and Critique 20. Which side are you on? 1 Ultra-red, Unión de Vecinos and (Anti-)Capitalist Life 21. J14 – Contemporary Israeli Art and Capitalist Critique 22. From Resistance to Worlds Otherwise: Art against Extractivism 23. Unlearning colonial silences and undoing colonial capitalism: Truth-telling through creative practice on Yamaji Country 24. If chicken could talk: Collaborative economic learning and organising connected to rural and more-than-capitalist concepts and lived experience across the Rural School of Economics