TY - BOOK AU - Praznik,Katja TI - Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism SN - 9781487508418 U1 - 379.2/630977311 22 PY - 2021///] CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Art KW - Economic aspects KW - Yugoslavia KW - Art, Yugoslav KW - 20th century KW - Socialism and art KW - Unpaid labor KW - ART / History / Contemporary (1945-) KW - bisacsh KW - art and economy KW - art and labour KW - artistic labour KW - autonomy of art KW - creative labour KW - cultural labour KW - cultural policy KW - invisible labour KW - labor KW - precarious work KW - self-management KW - socialism N1 - Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Te Paradoxical Visibility of Yugoslav Art Workers, or Should Artists Strike? --; Chapter One The Autonomy of Art and the Emancipation of Artistic Labour --; Chapter Two A Feminist Approach to the Disavowed Economy of Art --; Chapter Three The Making of Yugoslav Art Workers: Artistic Labour and the Socialist Institution of Art --; Chapter Four The Mystification of Artistic Labour under Socialism --; Chapter Five Art Workers and the Hidden Class Conflict of Late Socialism --; Chapter Six The Contradictions of 1980s Alternative Ar --; Conclusion Post-Yugoslav Dispossession and the Contradictions of Artistic Labour after Socialism --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art – as a passion for self-expression and an activity done out of love, without any concern for its financial aspects – and instead builds a case for understanding art as a form of invisible labour. Focusing on the experiences of art workers and the history of labour regulation in the arts in socialist Yugoslavia, Praznik helps elucidate the contradiction at the heart of artistic production and the origins of the mystification of art as labour. This profoundly interdisciplinary book highlights the Yugoslav socialist model of culture as the blueprint for uncovering the interconnected aesthetic and economic mechanisms at work in the exploitation of artistic labour. It also shows the historical trajectory of how policies toward art and artistic labour changed by the end of the 1980s. Calling for a fundamental rethinking of the assumptions behind Western art and exploitative labour practices across the world, Art Work will be of interest to scholars in East European studies, art theory, and cultural policy, as well as to practicing artists UR - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487538187 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487538187 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487538187/original ER -