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Author Relyea, Lane, 1960- author.

Title Your everyday art world / Lane Relyea
Published Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2013
©2013

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Contents 1. Welcome to Yourspace -- Networks, Databases, Platforms, and Projects -- Reading Neo-avant-garde History in Terms of Networks and DIY -- How to Start Your Own Country -- 2. Glasgow, Los Angeles, New York, Cologne -- A Context of One's Own -- Everyday Life -- The Middle Drops Out -- Potemkin Villages -- Anti-hub, or Cultural Welfare as We Knew It -- Exhibiting Sociality, or How the Social Life of Contracting Free Agents Emerges as Art's New Institutional Frame -- Trust -- Mute -- Coda: Where Do Social Networks Come From? -- 3. Ruins -- Tear Down -- Criticism and Database -- Between Aftermath and Aftermarket
Summary Over the past 20 years, the network has come to dominate the art world, affecting not just interaction among art professionals but the very makeup of the art object itself. The hierarchical and restrictive structure of the museum has been replaced by temporary projects scattered across the globe, staffed by free agents hired on short-term contracts, viewed by spectators defined by their predisposition to participate and make connections. In this book, Lane Relyea tries to make sense of these changes, describing a general organizational shift in the art world that affects not only material infrastructures but also conceptual categories and the construction of meaning.<br /><br />Examining art practice, exhibition strategies, art criticism and graduate education, Relyea aligns the transformation of the art world with the advent of globalization and the neoliberal economy. He analyzes the new networked, participatory art world -- hailed by some as inherently democratic -- in terms of the pressures of part-time temp work in a service economy, the calculated stockpiling of business contacts and the anxious duty of being a "team player" at work. Relyea calls attention to certain networked forms of art -- including relational aesthetics, multiple or fictive artist identities and bricolaged objects -- that can be seen to oppose the values of neoliberalism rather than romanticizing and idealizing them. Relyea offers a powerful answer to the claim that the interlocking functions of the network -- each act of communicating, of connecting, or practice -- are without political content
Analysis ARTS/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Art and society -- History -- 20th century
Art and society -- History -- 21st century
Art and society.
ART -- History -- General.
Art and society
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012048019
ISBN 9781461941682
1461941687
9780262316934
0262316935
9781299848399
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9780262316927
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