The main objective of this book is to explain how contemporary literatures in Spanish and Portuguese are dealing with artistic creativity when artmaking is no longer a specialised field of cultural production, but rather an expanded field of socioeconomic interaction, personal and creative self-definition and collective imagination. The project positions the contemporary art novel as the most suitable place to understand how the economisation of cultural labour is affecting writers and artists alike. The authors examined in this book, including José Saramago, Rita Indiana Hernández, María Gainza, Mayra Santos Febres and Ondjaki (amongst others) explore the contradictions of the art market, the dynamics of art education, the multifaceted activity of curators and socially engaged artists in relation to broader debates on the role of culture in the configuration of socioeconomic dynamics. The book maps a new trend within contemporary literature that taps into the visual art system to reassess the role of literature in critical ways.
Author(s): Carlos Garrido Castellano
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 226
City: New York
Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: Art F(r)ictions: Assessing the Contemporary Art Novel
Notes
References
Part I: Do We Live in Neoliberal Art Worlds?
Chapter 2: The Aesthetics of Narcocapitalist Politics
Introduction
Installing Violence, Installed in Violence
Iterating Violence and Artistic Frames
Art≠Life?
Art as Exemplary Indebtedness
Why Write about Necro(art)politics?
Notes
References
Chapter 3: Art Economies and Energy Colonialism, Luanda Version
Introduction
Art, Energy and Nation Building
“A Oitava Arte.” Oil Regimes, Street Politics and Artistic Entrepreneurialism
A Sociedade dos Sonhadores Involuntários
Conclusions
Notes
References
Part II: Literature and Artistic Subjectivity
Chapter 4: Redefining Artistic Expertise in Pre- and Post-crisis Portugal
A Song of Clay and Plastic. Historicizing and Situating Globalization in The Cave
Contextualizing and Historicizing Global Creative Homogenization
“ Me derrubar nem com macumba, sou criativa ” Racial Identification and the Urban Redefinition of Postcolonial Lisbon
Afro-Portuguese Creators in the Shopping Mall
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 5: “Killing Several Birds with One Stone”: Art Activism and Financial Speculation in the Dominican Republic
More than Visual: Rita Indiana Hernández's Vernacular Creativity
The Dominican Art Ecosystem
Tentacle and the Material I(n)tera(c)tions of Contemporary Caribbean Art
The Sosúa Art Project or Socially Engaged Art under Neoliberalism
Subalternity, Margin, Culture
Conclusions
Notes
References
Part III: The Contemporary Art Novel: Forms, Uses, Formations
Chapter 6: The Novel after Art Theory: Neoliberalism as Reterritorialization in the Spanish State
Introduction
Contextualizing the Cultural Bubble
Variations on Enthusiasm and Experience
Conclusions
Notes
References
Chapter 7: The Phenomenology of the Art Novel
Notes
References
Chapter 8: The Transdividual Art Novel
On (not) Seeing Well and Writing Art History
Criticality and the Unplanned Exhibition
Conclusions
Notes
References
Index
