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Art and the Public Sphere : The Biennale issue
- 2017
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In: Art & the Public Sphere. - 2042-793X .- 2042-7948. ; 5:2
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- A special issue on current thinking on the biennale form in contemporary art with contributions on the Ghetto biennale, answers from leaders in the artworld to a questionnaire on biennales, an essay by D Beech on the concept of the critical biennale and an interview with Charles Esche.
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- Beech, David, 1965
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Art and the Politics of Eliminating Handicraft
- 2019
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In: Historical Materialism-Research in Critical Marxist Theory. - : Brill. - 1465-4466. ; 27:1, s. 155-181
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This essay charts the outlines of the historical transition from the artisanal workshop to the artist's studio and the transition from the artisan to the artist, not through the transition from patronage to the art market but through an analysis of the transformation of labour's social division of labour. The essay reassesses the discourses on the artist as genius and the artist as worker through a reinterpretation of the elevation of the Fine Arts above handicraft. This sheds new light, also, on the discourse of deskilling in art. This essay argues that the transition from the artisan to the artist is an effect of the social division of labour in which the knowledge, skills and privileges of the master artisan are distributed among a set of specialists.
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- Beech, David, 1965
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Art, labour and revolution
- 2016
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In: Art and the Public Sphere. - 2042-793X. ; 5:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The article is a reassessment of the contemporary theory of the convergence of art and politics; the contemporary theory of politics; and the contemporary theory of artistic labour, which converge in a new theory of revolution as turning on the radical transformation of the mode of production with artistic labour occupying a politically significant point within the bourgeois social division of labour.
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- Beech, David, 1965
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Art, the Public and the Jacobin Revolution
- 2015
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In: Local Authority. - Dublin : The Arts Office. - 9780957172197 ; , s. 25-35
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Argues that the relationship between art and public art has its roots in the bourgeois revolution which took art from the aristocracy and made it public. Public art and its recent variants, such as new genre public art and the social turn, cannot be satisfactorily cut off from the history of art's autonomy since both the concept of art and of art's publicness are built into the concept of public art.
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- Beech, David, 1965
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Artist / Worker / Misfit?
- 2017
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In: Art Monthly. - 0142-6702. ; :408, s. 6-10
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This essay examines the changing conception of the artist in relation to the concept of the worker from the nineteenth century worker-poets to the model of the 24/7 precarious worker of neoliberalism.
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- Beech, David, 1965
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Assessing the Concept of Participation in Participatory Art
- 2016
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In: European Academy of Participation International Conference.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this paper I argued that the discourse on participation in contemporary art merely thematises one half of a relationship between the artist and her publics and therefore not only neglects serious issues about the social status of the artist, but also fails to thematise the issues of participation as the issues of a social relationship between artists and society.
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- Beech, David, 1965
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Citizen Ship
- 2017
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In: MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK.
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Artistic work (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Citizen Ship was a socially engaged art project that housed the production and display of collective produced slogans. Passers-by at five locations became members of the public sphere by engaging in debate and acts of publishing.
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- Beech, David, 1965, et al.
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Freee-Caracci-Institute
- 2016
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In: NN Gallery, Number Nine, Guildhall Road, Northampton, NN1 1DP.
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Artistic work (other academic/artistic)
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- Beech, David, 1965
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From Commodification to Exceptionalism
- 2017
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In: Left Forum 2017: The Resistance.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- A panel at Left Forum was convened to discuss Dave Beech's book Art and Value, organised by Bryan Pankhurst (Oberlin College). The abstract for the panel read as follows: Dave Beech’s groundbreaking 2015 text Art and Value is the first systematic critique of the analytical approaches to art that have arisen within the frameworks of classical, neoclassical and Marxian economics. In addition to diagnosing a series of foundational mistakes that undermine the conclusions of historically significant economic treatments of art, the book also makes the positive argument that art is economically exceptional, in that the dynamics of its production and consumption are dissimilar to the dynamics that characterize the production and consumption of commodities in the context of capital accumulation. That is, contrary to the conventional pessimistic wisdom of much Marxist art theory, art has (by and large) not been relentlessly commodified, and art production has (by and large) not been subject to formal or real subsumption under capital. In this author-meets-critics panel, four music scholars who are sympathetic to Beech’s project develop and reflect upon themes from Art and Value. Topics to be explored include: 1) the applicability of Beech’s analysis, which centers on visual art and the gallery system, to various spheres of musical production and consumption; 2) the broad class of saleable items whose use-value is inseparable from the (authentic, traditional, non-exploitative, etc.) manner in which they are produced (such as art objects); 3) the welfare economics behind justifications for government support for the arts; and 4) the methodological errors committed by “Weberian” Marxists, such as Adorno and Lukács, in their impressionistic attempts to correlate artistic phenomena and the capitalist mode of production.
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