Death of the Artist

Art World Dissidents and Their Alternative Identities

AvNicola McCartney

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Engelska, 2018

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There exists a series of contemporary artists who continually defy the traditional role of the artist/author, including Art & Language, Guerrilla Girls, Bob and Roberta Smith, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Lucky PDF. In Death of the Artist, Nicola McCartney explores their work and uses previously unpublished interviews to provoke a vital and nuanced discussion about contemporary artistic authorship. How do emerging artists navigate intellectual property or work collectively and share the recognition? How might a pseudonym aid 'artivism'? Most strikingly, she demonstrates how an alternative identity can challenge the art market and is symptomatic of greater cultural and political rebellion. As such, this book exposes the art world's financially incentivised infrastructures, but also examines how they might be reshaped from within. In an age of cuts to arts funding and forced self-promotion, this offers an important analysis of the pressing need for the artistic community to construct new ways to reinvent itself and incite fresh responses to its work.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-30
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781786724724
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Serie:International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art

Utforska kategorier

Konstteori inom Kultur
Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Nicola McCartney is an artist and educator. She is a lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central St Martins, University of the Arts London. She was previously Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, and has taught fine art and critical theory at The Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University. She is also a practising artist and has exhibited throughout London and the UK, received public commissions and undertaken residencies.

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This book is a fine contribution to the study of modern art and artists and will help us to understand the practice and significance of alternative identities, pseudonyms and collective identity.

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction1. Parodies of the Self: Surrealism and Ambivalent Authorship in 'Rrose Selavy' and 'Claude Cahun'2. Collective Practice: Art & Language and LuckyPDFInterview: Socio-Art & The Art of Interaction: James Early of LuckyPDFInterviewed by Nicola McCartney on 9 May 20133. Anonymity and Feminism: Guerrilla GirlsInterview: Feminist Avengers: Guerrilla GirlsInterviewed by Nicola McCartney on 14 August 20134. Pseudonyms: Bob and Roberta SmithInterview: Art Mythologies: Bob and Roberta SmithInterviewed by Nicola McCartney on 18 February 20135. Performance and Collaboration: 'No, I'm Spartacus'. . . Chetwynd!ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex