Artistic Labour of the Body

Rose-Anne Gush (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
9789004746497 (ISBN)

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Artistic Labour of the Body connects VALIE EXPORT and Elfriede Jelinek with Theodor Adorno’s aesthetics. Focusing on postwar Austrian art and literature, it theorises the use of the body in practices that addressed fascist legacies, offering insights amid today’s political shifts.

Artistic Labour of the Body examines VALIE EXPORT's and Elfriede Jelinek's use of the body and psyche as artistic material to explore Adorno’s concept of artistic labour. By deploying the body as artistic material, their works challenge women’s reduction to reproductive function or sexual object, articulating a feminism beyond "innocence". Gush demonstrates how their art critiqued postwar Austria’s culture of disavowal, where unprocessed legacies of Nazism perpetuated Austria’s victimhood myth, while also exploring the complex identifications within this critique. The book reframes postwar artistic practices that revealed the body as both a site of patriarchal-capitalist violence and of resistance.

Rose-Anne Gush is an art historian and theorist whose work explores the political aesthetics of the body and notions of artistic labour, gender and feminism(s), and theories of "global art". Her research engages with the spatial politics of capitalism, geographies of extraction, and questions of form. She is currently Assistant Professor at IZK – Institute for Contemporary Art at TU Graz.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Historical Materialism Book Series ; 368
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	717 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-13	9789004746497 / 9789004746497
Zustand	Neuware