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All About Process

The Theory and Discourse of Modern Artistic Labor
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A study of the concept of artistic process in the Western tradition of the visual arts. Focuses on modern and contemporary art and analyzes the development of process as a discourse that increasingly locates the primary value of art in the artist’s creative labor.


Contents

Introduction: Process as Value

Chapter One: Conceptualizing the Artist’s Labor Prior to the 19th Century

Chapter Two: Art, Craft, and Industrialization

Nineteenth Century Philosophical and Theoretical Views of the Artist’s Process

The Arts and Crafts Movement and Artistic Process

Photography and Artistic Process

Chapter Three: The Artist’s Process from the Academic to the Modern

Chapter Four: New Conceptions of the Artist’s Process

The Artist’s Labor in Time -- Series and Stages

Modern Art and Industrial Processes – Purism

Physicality and Matter – The Modern Artistic Process and the Artist’s Medium

Chapter Five: The Artist’s Process as a Means of Self-Realization

Chapter Six: The Artist’s Process at Mid-Century

Artistic Process and Amateur Artists

Changes in Artists’ Education

Chapter Seven: Art and Social Processes

Chapter Eight: Process Art

Systems Aesthetics, Series, and Conceptualism

The Artist’s Work and the Artist’s Role

Process Art and Craft

Artists’ Education and Process after 1960

Chapter Nine: It’s All about the Process

Notes

Bibliography

Index


All About Process brings a wealth of art-historical knowledge and perceptive theoretical insight to analyze the crucial but elusive concept of artistic process and makes a powerful argument for its importance, not simply as an indispensable tool for creating more interesting art objects but as part of the essence of art itself. Kim Grant’s book provides a welcome resource for resisting the forces of commodification while closing the gap between art and life.”

—Richard Shusterman, author of Thinking Through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics

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