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Book Synopsis
By exposing the separation of art and labour, Art Work provides a valuable, historical perspective on the present-day struggle for artists' rights.

Trade Review
"In this timely book, the sociologist of culture Katja Praznik analyses the paradoxical nature of art as socially useful labor and parses the regimes of compensation that artists receive under different political systems." -- Vladimir Kulić * Critique d’art *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: The Paradoxical Visibility of Yugoslav Art Workers, or Should Artists Strike? 1. The Autonomy of Art and the Emancipation of Labour 2. A Feminist Approach to the Disavowed Economy of Art 3. The Making of Yugoslav Art Workers: Artistic Labour and the Socialist Institution of Art 4. The Mystification of Artistic Labour under Socialism 5. Art Workers and the Hidden Class Conflict of Late Socialism 6. The Contradictions of 1980s Alternative Art Conclusion: Post-Yugoslav Dispossession and the Contradictions of Artistic Labour after Socialism

Art Work

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 17 June 2021
      ISBN-13 9781487508418
      978-1487508418
      ISBN-10 1487508417
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      By exposing the separation of art and labour, Art Work provides a valuable, historical perspective on the present-day struggle for artists' rights.

      Trade Review
      "In this timely book, the sociologist of culture Katja Praznik analyses the paradoxical nature of art as socially useful labor and parses the regimes of compensation that artists receive under different political systems." -- Vladimir Kulić * Critique d’art *

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: The Paradoxical Visibility of Yugoslav Art Workers, or Should Artists Strike? 1. The Autonomy of Art and the Emancipation of Labour 2. A Feminist Approach to the Disavowed Economy of Art 3. The Making of Yugoslav Art Workers: Artistic Labour and the Socialist Institution of Art 4. The Mystification of Artistic Labour under Socialism 5. Art Workers and the Hidden Class Conflict of Late Socialism 6. The Contradictions of 1980s Alternative Art Conclusion: Post-Yugoslav Dispossession and the Contradictions of Artistic Labour after Socialism

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