{"product_id":"9780271023342-work-ethic","title":"Work Ethic","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring the 1960s, artists such as Alan Kaprow, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol stopped making \"art\", they staged performances that mixed everyday life with theatre and challenged the system of marketing, display and aesthetic discourses. This work brings together a cross- section of such endeavours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the 1960s, artists from Alan Kaprow and Yoko Ono to Andy Warhol and Richard Serra stopped making \"art\" as it has been thought of since the Renaissance. They staged performances that mixed everyday life with theater and in yet other, often ironic, ways challenged the system of marketing, display, and aesthetic discourse that ascribes exceptional monetary as well as cultural value to paintings and sculpture. \u003ci\u003eWork Ethic\u003c\/i\u003e, published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art, brings together a cross section of such radical endeavors and opens a fresh perspective on their genesis and meaning. Most of the avant-garde interventions considered in \u003ci\u003eWork Ethic\u003c\/i\u003e entailed performances and other procedures generally interpreted as linking a \"dematerialization\" of the object with the free play of concepts. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy contrast, Helen Molesworth and her collaborators in \u003ci\u003eWork Ethic\u003c\/i\u003e set such activities in the context of the workplace and contend that they engage issues of management, production, and skill that accompanied the emergence of the information age. The result is a major breakthrough in understanding the structures and ambitions of a wide range of art-making. \u003ci\u003eWork Ethic\u003c\/i\u003e reproduces all the diverse material—Bruce Nauman videotapes to Roxy Paine’s painting machine—in the Baltimore exhibition and provides insightful discussion of each piece’s history, structure, and significance. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour essays introduce topics, like utopian fantasies of pleasurable work, that are of general relevance to setting the material into a postindustrial context. Throughout this catalogue, there is as well a lively dialogue on the museum’s relationship to art that questions the rules of both the workplace and the art world. The exhibition, \"Work Ethic,\" will be at The Baltimore Museum of Art from October 12, 2003, to January 11, 2004, and at the Des Moines Center for the Arts from May 15 to August 1, 2004.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41150726504545,"sku":"9780271023342","price":36.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27827004.jpg?v=1722081227","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780271023342-work-ethic","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}