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Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (Marxism and Culture)

Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (Marxism and Culture)
Library Shelf Location 05.SHOL
Publication Date 05 Nov 2010
Description Product Description Art is big business, with some artists able to command huge sums of money for their works, while the vast majority are ignored or dismissed by critics. This book shows that these marginalised artists, the 'dark matter' of the art world, are essential to the survival of the mainstream and that they frequently organize in opposition to it. Gregory Sholette, a politically engaged artist, argues that imagination and creativity in the art world originate thrive in the non-commercial sector shut off from prestigious galleries and champagne receptions. This broader creative culture feeds the mainstream with new forms and styles that can be commodified and used to sustain the few artists admitted into the elite. This dependency, and the advent of inexpensive communication, audio and video technology, has allowed this 'dark matter' of the alternative art world to increasingly subvert the mainstream and intervene politically as both new and old forms of non-capitalist, public art. This book is essential for anyone interested in interventionist art, collectivism, and the political economy of the art world. About The Author Gregory Sholette is an artist, activist and author based in New York. He co-founded two artists’ collectives: Political Art Documentation and Distribution (1980-88) and REPOhistory (1989-2000). He is co-editor of The Interventionists: Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life (2004) and Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 (2007).
Quantity 1
Pages 256pp, 230mm x 150mm, 41 photographs
Author Gregory Sholette
Format Paperback
Publisher Pluto Press
Category Theory
Keywords Politics, Society, Economics, Marxism, Communism
Language English

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