Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System: Global Perspectives in Spanish and Portuguese

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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. 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