Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism

This profoundly interdisciplinary book highlights the Yugoslav socialist model of culture as the blueprint for uncovering the interconnected aesthetic and economic mechanisms at work in the exploitation of artistic labour. It also shows the historical trajectory of how policies toward art and artistic labour changed by the end of the 1980s. Calling for a fundamental rethinking of the assumptions behind Western art and exploitative labour practices across the world, will be of interest to scholars in East European studies, art theory, and cultural policy, as well as to practicing artists.