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Art in the Making
Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, art production methods, and the cultural dynamics behind creative processes.
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The first book to examine how the means of production underpins and defines contemporary art practice
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From painting to digital technologies to crowdsourcing, over the last few decades, the means of making artworks have become more extraordinary and diverse. Yet we rarely consider the implications of how art is made.
In this wide-ranging exploration of methods and media in art since the 1950s, Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson take the reader behind the scenes of the studio, the factory, and other sites where art is created. They show how the materials and processes used by artists are vital to considerations of authorship and to understanding the economic and social contexts from which art emerges.
Art in the Making focuses on the intersection of thinking and making through chapters that concentrate on a particular process: painting, woodworking, building, performing, tooling up, cashing in, fabricating, digitizing, and crowdsourcing. Discussions of broader themes are woven together with detailed examples and visuals, revealing the logic involved in the choice of techniques and materials.
Artists featured include Alice Aycock, Judy Chicago, Isa Genzken, Los Carpinteros, Paul Pfeiffer, Doris Salcedo, Santiago Sierra, and Rachel Whiteread.
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we-make-money-not-art.com calls it 'full of very good surprises, unusual suspects and unexpected perspectives ... illuminating and thought-provoking.' Crafts states, 'After reading this book I won’t ever look at an artwork in the same way again.'
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ISBN: 9780500239339
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 02 May 2016
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Illustration: with 219 illustrations in colour and black and white
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 172.0mm
Height: 231.0mm
Weight: 920g
Pages: 248
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About the Author
Glenn Adamson is Director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. He was formerly head of research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and tutor at the Royal College of Art, London. He is co-editor of the Journal of Modern Craft and author of The Craft Reader and The Invention of Craft.
Julia Bryan-Wilson is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era and editor of Robert Morris (OCTOBER Files).
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