Artistic Labour of the Body by Rose-Anne Gush
Artistic Labour of the Body examines VALIE EXPORT's and Elfriede Jelinek's use of the body and psyche as artistic material to explore Adorno’s concept of artistic labour. By deploying the body as artistic material, their works challenge women’s reduction to reproductive function or sexual object, articulating a feminism beyond "innocence". Gush demonstrates how their art critiqued postwar Austria’s culture of disavowal, where unprocessed legacies of Nazism perpetuated Austria’s victimhood myth, while also exploring the complex identifications within this critique. The book reframes postwar artistic practices that revealed the body as both a site of patriarchal-capitalist violence and of resistance.
Rose-Anne Gush is an art historian and theorist whose work explores the political aesthetics of the body and notions of artistic labour, gender and feminism(s), and theories of "global art". Her research engages with the spatial politics of capitalism, geographies of extraction, and questions of form. She is currently Assistant Professor at IZK – Institute for Contemporary Art at TU Graz.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789004746497 |
| ISBN 10 | 9004746498 |
| Title | Artistic Labour of the Body |
| Author | Rose-Anne Gush |
| Series | Historical Materialism Book Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2025-11-27 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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