{"product_id":"wages-against-artwork-decommodified-labor-and-the-claims-of-socially-engaged-art-paperback","title":"Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeigh Claire La Berge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. In \u003ci\u003eWages Against Artwork\u003c\/i\u003e Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially engaged art responds to and critiques what she calls decommodified labor--the slow diminishment of wages alongside an increase in the demands of work. Outlining the ways in which socially engaged artists relate to work, labor, and wages, La Berge examines how artists and organizers create institutions to address their own and others' financial precarity; why the increasing role of animals and children in contemporary art points to the turn away from paid labor; and how the expansion of MFA programs and student debt helps create the conditions for decommodified labor. In showing how socially engaged art operates within and against the need to be paid for work, La Berge offers a new theorization of the relationship between art and contemporary capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeigh Claire La Berge is Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, author of \u003ci\u003eScandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s\u003c\/i\u003e, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eReading Capitalist Realism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457621704957,"sku":"9781478004820","price":52.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/c1grZk9CL0ZteTZ5UVg4Y2hrQXRnUT09.webp?v=1777242458","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/wages-against-artwork-decommodified-labor-and-the-claims-of-socially-engaged-art-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}