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Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially engaged art responds to and critiques what she calls decommodified labor—the slow diminishment of wages alongside an increase of demands of work—as a way to work toward social justice and economic equality.
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The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. In Wages Against Artwork Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially engaged art responds to and critiques what she calls decommodified labor-the slow diminishment of wages alongside an increase in the demands of work. Outlining the ways in which socially engaged artists relate to work, labor, and wages, La Berge examines how artists and organizers create institutions to address their own and others' financial precarity; why the increasing role of animals and children in contemporary art points to the turn away from paid labor; and how the expansion of MFA programs and student debt helps create the conditions for decommodified labor. In showing how socially engaged art operates within and against the need to be paid for work, La Berge offers a new theorization of the relationship between art and contemporary capitalism.
Author Biography
Leigh Claire La Berge is Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, author of Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s, and coeditor of Reading Capitalist Realism.
Table of Contents
Preface: The Argument ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction: Socially Engaged Art and Decommodified Labor 11. Art Student, Art Worker: The Decommodified Labor of Studentdom 342. Institutions as Art: The Collective Forms of Decommodified Labor 753. Art Worker Animal: Animals as Socially Engaged Artists in a Post-Labor Era 1184. The Artwork of Children's Labor: Socially Engaged Art and the Future of Work 157Epilogue: Liberal Arts 198Notes 205Bibliography 239Index 249
Review
"This highly original work of Marxist aesthetic theory is a must-read for anyone interested in art and capitalism. Leigh Claire La Berge's thought experiment on how labor might go unpaid and still in a nontrivial way remain labor intersects in fascinating ways with arguments about reproductive labor made by feminists and brilliantly cleaves through mainstream academic culture's increasingly entrenched alternatives of using either 'biopolitics' and 'real subsumption' to understand our contemporary economy. I learned so much from this book and it still keeps me thinking." -- Sianne Ngai, author of * Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting *"In elaborating a concept of 'decommodified labor,' Leigh Claire La Berge offers a fresh and provocative frame that changes how we understand the dynamics of art, labor, and social change. Marshalling a range of case studies on both established and emerging artists, Wages against Artwork is a fantastic contribution to an ongoing dialogue on the arts, on economics, and on how we define the social in socially engaged art." -- Shannon Jackson, author of * Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics *"The biggest contribution of this book is to put economic and aesthetic theory together, to see what happens when the aesthetic is subjected to a Marxist analysis.... La Berge's well-reasoned, engaging, and thorough book is a wonderful addition to the fields of Marxism, aesthetics, and performance." -- Joseph Richards * Houston Review of Books *
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"This highly original work of Marxist aesthetic theory is a must-read for anyone interested in art and capitalism. Leigh Claire La Berge's thought experiment on how labor might go unpaid and still in a nontrivial way remain labor intersects in fascinating ways with arguments about reproductive labor made by feminists and brilliantly cleaves through mainstream academic culture's increasingly entrenched alternatives of using either 'biopolitics' and 'real subsumption' to understand our contemporary economy. I learned so much from this book and it still keeps me thinking."
Details ISBN1478004827 Author Leigh Claire La Berge Publisher Duke University Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 1478004827 ISBN-13 9781478004820 Format Paperback Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Illustrations 21 illustrations DEWEY 701.03 Pages 280 Publication Date 2019-08-23 Short Title Wages Against Artwork Language English UK Release Date 2019-08-23 AU Release Date 2019-08-23 NZ Release Date 2019-08-23 US Release Date 2019-08-23 Alternative 9781478004233 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this
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