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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452904803321

Autore

Relyea Lane <1960->

Titolo

Your everyday art world / / Lane Relyea

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : MIT Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-262-31692-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

709.05/1

Soggetti

Art and society - History - 20th century

Art and society - History - 21st century

Art - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Welcome to Yourspace; 2 Glasgow, Los Angeles, New York, Cologne; 3 Ruins; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 The hierarchical and restrictive structure of the museum has been replaced by temporary projects scattered across the globe, staffed by free agents hired on short-term contracts, viewed by spectators defined by their predisposition to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.