Art’s social forms

Reivew of Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

Josefine Wikström ~ RP 2.14 (April 2023), pp. 95–98 ~ Review

Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 2021). 857pp., £30.00 hb., 978 0 37415 845 3 During the past decade there has been an intensified debate in mainstream art criticism about the tension between art’s freedom and free speech. In this debate art’s freedom […]

Entrepreneurial subjectivity

Reivew of Marina Vishmidt, Speculation as a Mode of Production

Josefine Wikström ~ RP 2.05 (Autumn 2019), pp. 79–82 ~ Review

Marina Vishmidt, Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value in Subjectivity in Art and Capital (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018), 254pp., £120.00 hb., 978 9 00429 137 9 When the Swedish artists Goldin+Senneby’s Eternal Employment was chosen as one of the main public art works to feature in the massive rebuilding of the […]