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The intangibilities of form : skill and deskilling in art after the readymade

This book elaborates a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art and the modern expansion of the circuits of artitstic authorship. It involves less a discussion of specific artworks than an analysis of the kinds of labor contained in artworks as a reflection on a wider debate about artistic labor and productive and non-productive labor and the limits and possibilites of authorship ... from Preface

Print Book, English, 2007
Verso, London, 2007