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Author Gerber, Marina.

Title Empty Action : Labour and Free Time in the Art of Collective Actions
Published Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages)
Series Image ; v. 124
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Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Interlude: A Participant's Report on the Action SUMMA (2015); 1. Empty Action; 2. Collective Actions' Concept of Art; 3. Free Time in Trips out of Town; 4. Free Time, Labour and Art: A Theoretical Contextualisation; 5. Collective Actions Members 'at Work' and 'after Work'; 6. The Production of (Collective) Actions; 7. Empty Action as the Suspension of Work; Bibliography; List of Illustrations
Summary The first monograph on the artists group "Collective Actions", one of the most significant enterprises of modern and contemporary Russian art, studies their guiding esoteric principle of 'Empty action'. Departing from the seemingly mundane fact that their practice emerged in their free time from full-time employment for the Soviet State in a period of stagnating industrialisation, Marina Gerber identifies Empty action as a form of "art after work". The result is a comprehensive and profound investigation of the artistic and socio-historical context of Collective Actions' practice that bears some significance for contemporary debates on art and labour in a post-industrial age
Notes In English
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Subject Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Art, Modern.
ART -- History -- Contemporary (1945- )
ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)
Art, Modern
Moderne
Künstlervereinigung
Kunst
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
History
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3839440904
9783839440902