Work Ethic

by Helen Molesworth

During the 1960s, artists from Alan Kaprow and Yoko Ono to Andy Warhol and Richard Serra stopped making "art" as it has been thought of since the Renaissance. They staged performances that mixed everyday life with theater and in yet other, often ironic, ways challenged the system of marketing, display, and aesthetic discourse that ascribes exceptional monetary as well as cultural value to paintings and sculpture. Work Ethic, published in conjunction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271023341
• ISBN13: 9780271023342
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 9.7"