Art in the Making :Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing

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Art in the Making

Art in the Making :Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing

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Today’s artists have an unprecedented level of choice with regard to materials and methods available to them, yet the processes involved in making artworks are rarely addressed in books or exhibitions on art. Here, Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson argue that the materials and methods used to make artworks hold the key to artists’ motivations, their attitudes to authorship, uniqueness and the value of objects, the economic and social contexts from which they emerge, and their approach to the perceived opposition between materiality and conceptualism in art. The book’s introduction sets out a history of trends in artistic production and the possible catalysts for the proliferation of production strategies since the mid-twentieth century, followed by nine chapters that explore different methods and media. Detailed examples are interwoven with the discussion, including visuals that reveal the intricacies of each technique or material and its overall effect when presented as an artwork. Artists featured include Ai Weiwei, Ron Arad, Chris Burden, Katharina Fritsch, Isa Genzken, Jeff Koons, Los Carpinteros, Haroon Mirza, Takashi Murakami, Gerhard Richter, Doris Salcedo and Santiago Sierra
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780500239339
ISBN10 0500239339
Number Of Pages 248
Item Weight 920 g
Publisher / Reseller Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format hardback
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'Full of very good surprises, unusual suspects and unexpected perspectives … illuminating and thought-provoking' - we-make-money-not-art.com
'After reading this book I won’t ever look at an artwork in the same way again' - Crafts

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Author's Bio

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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