The artist as economist: art and capitalism in the 1960s

"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 abstracted -- and the art market increasingly an are...

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Beteilige Person: Cras, Sophie (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New Haven Yale University Press [2019]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00187
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00187
Zusammenfassung:"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 abstracted -- and the art market increasingly an arena for speculation -- artists 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 capitalism's visual dimension. As art and economics grow more entangled, this volume offers a timely consideration of art's capacity to reflect on and reimagine economic systems"--Publisher's description
Beschreibung:Some information on title page verso in English and French. - The present volume is a translation, with revisions, of L' économie à l'épreuve de l'art: art et capitalisme dans les années 1960 (Les presses du réel, 2018)
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (x, 234 Seiten) 97 Illustrationen (some color), charts
ISBN:0300255136
9780300255133
DOI:10.37862/aaeportal.00187