Overview
Is there a market for artworks that are resistant to being sold? This course considers artistic manifestations that have challenged the markets of art, contested artworks as commodities, and rejected traditional modes of economic exchange. We will trace the history of market resistant artworks from the rise of conceptual art in the 1960s to today, and explore their roles and trajectories in the ecosystem of the art world. Artists to be discussed include ruangrupa, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Robert Barry, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dan Perjovschi, Olia Lialina, Tino Sehgal, and many others.
What you will learn :
- Learn about the historical development of socially engaged art
- Learn about key artists working in socially engaged practice
- Gain understanding of how to consider market resistant artworks within the global contemporary art market
Image: Dread Scott, White Male for Sale, 2021
Academic Profile
Ágnes Berecz (PhD) focuses on transnational exchanges and collaborative, multimedia practices in postwar and contemporary art. In 2019, she published the book, "100 Years, 100 Artworks: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art" (Prestel), a singular and decidedly non-comprehensive overview of artists and their works across continents and media from the aftermath of World War I to the end of the 2010s. A former lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art, and a critic, Berecz is the New York correspondent of the Hungarian art monthly, Műértő, and she regularly publishes reviews and feature articles on global contemporary art both in Europe and the United States. Her writings appeared, among others, in Art Journal, Art in America, Artmargins and the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin as well as in many European and US exhibition catalogues.
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Video available to watch for 7 days after broadcast - Interactive Q & A with the academic, delivered over Zoom
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New York Courses Department
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