{"product_id":"uncommon-goods-by-jaimey-hamilton-faris-9781841505725","title":"Uncommon Goods","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book traces the shift from the installation art of the 1990s to the material turn of current practice. It is an important contribution to the scholarship on readymade art, as well as to the study of materiality, embodiment, and globalisation. It aims to fill a gap in current literature, specifically dealing with the material nature of contemporary art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince Marcel Duchamp created his 'readymades' a century ago, most famously christening a urinal as \u003cem\u003eFountain\u003c\/em\u003e, the practice of incorporating commodity objects into art has become ever more pervasive. \u003cem\u003eUncommon Goods\u003c\/em\u003e traces one particularly important aspect developing since the 1990s: artistic concern with the hidden ethical dimensions of global commerce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArt historian and cultural theorist, Jaimey Hamilton discusses the work of Ai Weiwei, Cory Arcangel, Thomas Hirschhorn, Santiago Sierra, and many more, reading their artistic explorations as overlapping with debates about how common goods hold us and our world in common. In each chapter, Hamilton introduces artists who exemplify the focus of readymade aesthetics on aspects of global commodity culture, including consumption, marketing, bureaucracy, labour and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting volume will be an important contribution to scholarship on readymade art, as well as to the study of materiality, embodiment, and globalisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471870738668,"sku":"9781841505725","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c7be34fbd668d8b403a0facc1ac40d6d.jpg?v=1775693166","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/uncommon-goods-by-jaimey-hamilton-faris-9781841505725","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}