Death of the Artist: Art World Dissidents and Their Alternative Identities (Paperback)

There exists a series of contemporary artists who continually defy the traditional role of the artist/author including Art & Language Guerrilla Girls Bob and Roberta Smith Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Lucky PDF. In Death of the Artist Nicola McCartney explores their work and uses previously unpublished interviews to provoke a vital and nuanced discussion about contemporary artistic authorship. How do emerging artists navigate intellectual property or work collectively and share the recognition? How might a pseudonym aid artivism ? Most strikingly she demonstrates how an alternative identity can challenge the art market and is symptomatic of greater cultural and political rebellion. As such this book exposes the art world s financially incentivised infrastructures but also examines how they might be reshaped from within. In an age of cuts to arts funding and forced self-promotion this offers an important analysis of the pressing need for the artistic community to construct new ways to reinvent itself and incite fresh responses to its work.