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The Artist as Economist

Sophie Cras

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  • 244 sidor
  • 2019
This timely and original study transforms our understanding of the relationship between art and economics Bearing witness to the changing economic landscape amid the Cold War, artists in the 1960s created works that critiqued, reshaped, and sometimes reinforced the spirit of capitalism. At a time when currency and finance were becoming ever more abstractedand the art market increasingly an arena for speculationartists on both sides of the Atlantic turned to economic themes, often grounded in a human context. The Artist as Economist examines artists who approached these issues in critical, imaginative, and humorous ways: Andy Warhol and Larry Rivers incorporated the iconography of printed currency into their paintings, while Ray Johnson sought to disrupt and reinvent circuits of commerce with his mail art collages. Yves Klein and Edward Kienholz critiqued conceptions of artistic and monetary value, as Lee Lozano and Dennis Oppenheim engaged directly with the New York Stock Exchange. Such examples, which author Sophie Cras insightfully situates within their historic economic context, reveal capitalisms visual dimension. As art and economics grow more entangled, this volume offers a timely consideration of arts capacity to reflect on and reimagine economic systems.
  • Författare: Sophie Cras
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780300232707
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 244
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-11-12
  • Översättare: Malcolm DeBevoise
  • Förlag: Yale University Press