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Art and Labour : On consumption, laziness and less work

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Article analysing how art approaches and resists the capitalist appropriation of power and creation. 

Artist / Author Bojana Kunst
Publisher Routledge
Reference A0583
Date 2012
Journal Performance Research
Journal date December 2012
Journal page 116-125
Type Article

Keywords

art capitalism labour production

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