Empty action : labour and free time in the art of Collective Actions /

Empty action : labour and free time in the art of Collective Actions /

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Author / Creator:Gerber, Marina, author.
Imprint:Bielefeld : Transcript, [2018]
©2018
Description:233 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Image ; volume 124
Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; v. 124.
Subject:
Kollektivnye deĭstvii͡a (Group of artists)
Kollektivnye deĭstvii͡a (Group of artists)
Conceptual art -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow.
Labor in art.
Leisure in art.
Art, Russian -- 20th century -- History.
Art, Russian.
Conceptual art.
Labor in art.
Leisure in art.
Russia (Federation) -- Moscow.
Academic theses.
History.
Academic theses.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12310217
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ISBN:9783837640908
3837640906
9783839440902
Notes:Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Berlin University of the Arts.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229).
Summary:The first monograph on the artists group "Collective Actions", one of the most significant enterprises of modern and contemporary Russian art, studies their guiding esoteric principle of 'Empty action'. Departing from the seemingly mundane fact that their practice emerged in their free time from full-time employment for the Soviet State in a period of stagnating industrialisation, Marina Gerber identifies Empty Action as a form of "art after work". The result is a comprehensive and profound investigation of the artistic and socio-historical context of Collective Actions' practice that bears some significance for contemporary debates on art and labour in a post-industrial age.

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