All About Process: The Theory and Discourse of Modern Artistic Labor
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Book
Description
In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes this idea and traces its historical roots, showing how changing concepts of artistic process have played a dominant role in the development of modern and contemporary art.
This astute account of the ways in which process has been understood and addressed examines canonical artists such as Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, and De Kooning, as well as philosophers and art theorists such as Henri Focillon, R. G. Collingwood, and John Dewey. Placing “process art” within a larger historical context, Grant looks at the changing relations of the artist’s labor to traditional craftsmanship and industrial production, the status of art as a commodity, the increasing importance of the body and materiality in art making, and the nature and significance of the artist’s role in modern society. In doing so, she shows how process is an intrinsic part of aesthetic theory that connects to important contemporary debates about work, craft, and labor.
Comprehensive and insightful, this synthetic study of process in modern and contemporary art reveals how artists’ explicit engagement with the concept fits into a broader narrative of the significance of art in the industrial and postindustrial world.
ISBN
978-0-271-07744-4
Publication Date
2017
Publisher
Penn State University Press
City
University Park, Pennsylvania
Keywords
Artistic Creation, Art, Modern Art, Artistic Process
Disciplines
Art and Design | Art Practice | Arts and Humanities | Fine Arts
Recommended Citation
Grant, Kim. All About Process: The Theory and Discourse of Modern Artistic Labor. The Pennsylvania State University Press , 2017.
