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Work Ethic

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I purchased this book after seeing an interesting reference to Work Ethic in a journal article. It is supposedly a catalogue, but it reads like a book (and is certainly large enough to be one) and serves as an excellent reference tool.

It is made up of a number of different essays and has profiles on a number of key artists who have addressed the issue of 'work' in art, grouped into three themes. The book is well illustrated with large colour images throughout the book and it also has a fantastic bibliography at the back.

The essay by Helen Molesworth succinctly surveys changes to artistic labour from the late 60s onwards. Her writing style is easy to understand which is helpful in understanding some of the complex ideas floating around during early postmodernism. The other essays by Darsie Alexander, Chris Gilbert and Miwon Kwon were of less interest to me personally, but were still well written.