Dave Beech, Ph.D., is Reader in Art and Marxism at CCW, University of the Arts, London. He is the author of Art and Value (Haymarket, 2016) and Art and Postcapitalism (Pluto, 2019).

“Beech’s book is most important as a critique of would-be Marxist orthodoxies in the fields of art history and cultural commentary [...] Art and Value undoubtedly leaves us in a much better position to formulate a proper economics of art.”—Jasper Bernes and Daniel Spaulding, Radical Philosophy

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Art, Labour and Abstraction2 Arts, Fine Arts and Art in General3 Guild, Court and Academy4 Salon, Museum and Exhibition5 Mechanic, Genius and Artist6 Aesthetic Labour7 Attractive Labour8 Alienated Labour9 Nonalienated Labour10 The Critique of LabourConclusionBibliographyIndex

Dave Beech, Ph.D., is Reader in Art and Marxism at CCW, University of the Arts, London. He is the author of Art and Value (Haymarket, 2016) and Art and Postcapitalism (Pluto, 2019).

“Beech’s book is most important as a critique of would-be Marxist orthodoxies in the fields of art history and cultural commentary [...] Art and Value undoubtedly leaves us in a much better position to formulate a proper economics of art.”—Jasper Bernes and Daniel Spaulding, Radical Philosophy

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Art, Labour and Abstraction2 Arts, Fine Arts and Art in General3 Guild, Court and Academy4 Salon, Museum and Exhibition5 Mechanic, Genius and Artist6 Aesthetic Labour7 Attractive Labour8 Alienated Labour9 Nonalienated Labour10 The Critique of LabourConclusionBibliographyIndex

Dave Beech, Ph.D., is Reader in Art and Marxism at CCW, University of the Arts, London. He is the author of Art and Value (Haymarket, 2016) and Art and Postcapitalism (Pluto, 2019).

“Beech’s book is most important as a critique of would-be Marxist orthodoxies in the fields of art history and cultural commentary [...] Art and Value undoubtedly leaves us in a much better position to formulate a proper economics of art.”—Jasper Bernes and Daniel Spaulding, Radical Philosophy

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Art, Labour and Abstraction2 Arts, Fine Arts and Art in General3 Guild, Court and Academy4 Salon, Museum and Exhibition5 Mechanic, Genius and Artist6 Aesthetic Labour7 Attractive Labour8 Alienated Labour9 Nonalienated Labour10 The Critique of LabourConclusionBibliographyIndex