TY - BOOK AU - Relyea,Lane TI - Your everyday art world /Lane Relyea SN - 9781461941682 AV - N72 .Y687 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge, MA PB - MIT Press KW - Art and society KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - ARTS/General KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 1. Welcome to Yourspace --; Networks, Databases, Platforms, and Projects --; Reading Neo-avant-garde History in Terms of Networks and DIY --; How to Start Your Own Country --; 2. Glasgow, Los Angeles, New York, Cologne --; A Context of One's Own --; Everyday Life --; The Middle Drops Out --; Potemkin Villages --; Anti-hub, or Cultural Welfare as We Knew It --; Exhibiting Sociality, or How the Social Life of Contracting Free Agents Emerges as Art's New Institutional Frame --; Trust --; Mute --; Coda: Where Do Social Networks Come From? --; 3. Ruins --; Tear Down --; Criticism and Database --; Between Aftermath and Aftermarket; 2; b N2 - Over the past 20 years, the network has come to dominate the art world, affecting not just interaction among art professionals but the very makeup of the art object itself. The hierarchical and restrictive structure of the museum has been replaced by temporary projects scattered across the globe, staffed by free agents hired on short-term contracts, viewed by spectators defined by their predisposition to participate and make connections. In this book, Lane Relyea tries to make sense of these changes, describing a general organizational shift in the art world that affects not only material infrastructures but also conceptual categories and the construction of meaning.

Examining art practice, exhibition strategies, art criticism and graduate education, Relyea aligns the transformation of the art world with the advent of globalization and the neoliberal economy. He analyzes the new networked, participatory art world -- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=637835&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -