Art Work : : Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism / / Katja Praznik.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
• VerfasserIn: Praznik, Katja,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 9 b&w illustrations

In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art – as an activity done out of love, a passion for self-expression, and without any concern for financial aspects – and instead builds a case for understanding art as a form of invisible labour. Focusing on the experiences of art workers and the history of labour regulation in the arts in socialist Yugoslavia, Praznik helps elucidate the contradiction at the heart of artistic production and the origins of the mystification of art as labour. This profoundly interdisciplinary book highlights the Yugoslav socialist model of culture as the blueprint for uncovering the interconnected aesthetic and economic mechanisms at work in the exploitation of artistic labour. It also shows the historical trajectory of how policies toward art and artistic labour changed by the end of the 1980s. Calling for a fundamental rethinking of the assumptions of Western art and exploitative labour practices across the world, Art Work will be of interest to scholars in East European studies, art theory, and cultural policy, as well as to practicing artists.

Table of Contents

Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Te Paradoxical Visibility of Yugoslav Art Workers, or Should Artists Strike? -- Chapter One The Autonomy of Art and the Emancipation of Artistic Labour -- Chapter Two A Feminist Approach to the Disavowed Economy of Art -- Chapter Three The Making of Yugoslav Art Workers: Artistic Labour and the Socialist Institution of Art -- Chapter Four The Mystification of Artistic Labour under Socialism -- Chapter Five Art Workers and the Hidden Class Conflict of Late Socialism -- Chapter Six The Contradictions of 1980s Alternative Ar -- Conclusion Post-Yugoslav Dispossession and the Contradictions of Artistic Labour after Socialism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index