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What We Want Is Free: Critical Exchanges in Recent Art

What We Want Is Free: Critical Exchanges in Recent Art

Purves, Ted
Selzer, Shane Aslan

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryConceptual ArtArt & Popular Culture

ISBN10: 1438453140
ISBN13: 9781438453149
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Jul 1 2014
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.97 Depth: 9.17
Language: English

Explores how contemporary artists use gifts, barter, and other forms of nonmonetary exchange as a means and medium of artistic production.

This revised edition of What We Want Is Free examines a twenty-year history of artistic productions that both model and occupy the various forms of exchange within contemporary society. From shops, gifts, and dinner parties to contract labor and petty theft, contemporary artists have used a variety of methods that both connect participants to tangible goods and services and, at the same time, offer critiques of and alternatives to global capitalism and other forms of social interaction. Examples of these various projects include the creation of free commuter bus lines and medicinal plant gardens, the distribution of such services as free housework or computer programming, and the production of community media projects such as free commuter newspapers and democratic low-wattage radio stations.

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