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Art in the making : artists and their materials from the studio to crowdsourcing / Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson.

Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 2016Description: 247 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780500239339
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Painting -- 2. Woodworking -- 3. Building -- 4. Performing -- 5. Tooling up -- 6. Cashing in -- 7. Fabricating -- 8. Digitizing -- 9. Crowdsourcing -- Conclusion.
Summary: Today's artists have an unprecedented level of choice with regard to materials and methods available to them, yet the processes involved in making artworks are rarely addressed in books or exhibitions on art. Here, Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson argue that the materials and methods used to make artworks hold the key to artists' motivations, their attitudes to authorship, uniqueness and the value of objects, the economic and social contexts from which they emerge, and their approach to the perceived opposition between materiality and conceptualism in art.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. Painting -- 2. Woodworking -- 3. Building -- 4. Performing -- 5. Tooling up -- 6. Cashing in -- 7. Fabricating -- 8. Digitizing -- 9. Crowdsourcing -- Conclusion.

Today's artists have an unprecedented level of choice with regard to materials and methods available to them, yet the processes involved in making artworks are rarely addressed in books or exhibitions on art. Here, Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson argue that the materials and methods used to make artworks hold the key to artists' motivations, their attitudes to authorship, uniqueness and the value of objects, the economic and social contexts from which they emerge, and their approach to the perceived opposition between materiality and conceptualism in art.