Tuesday 07.20.10 -- Art, Criticism, and Its Markets -- Reading Group

CONTENTS:
1. About this Tuesday
2. Week 4 Reading
3. Week 3 Readings
4. Week 2 Readings

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1. About this Tuesday

What: Reading Discussion
Where: 16Beaver Street, 4th Floor
When: Tuesday 07.20.10 at 7:15 pm
Who: Free and open to all

This will be the fifth reading group in the series.

Anastasiya had written the following note for Week 5:

We will continue with our reading group this Tuesday (7:15 pm).

The tentative plan for next week is to finish reading through the third and start the fourth (and the final) chapter of Isabelle Graw's "High Price". As an accompanying material we recommend taking a look
at Paolo Virno's "A Grammar of the Multitude" (http://www.generation-online.org/c/fcmultitude3.htm), which is a reference throughout the third chapter to Graw's attempts of articulating the position of culture producers in the post-Fordist economy. If you don't have time to read the whole thing, perhaps focusing on the second chapter "Labor, Action, Intellect" would be the most
productive. http://www.generation-online.org/c/fcmultitude3.htm

Also, for general interest, we are also attaching Graw's "When Life Goes to Work: Andy Warhol" - her article form the recent issue of October:

Suggested Reading:

http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/graw_innen_pt4.pd
http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/graw_warhold_october.pdf

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2. Week 4 Reading

Isabelle Graw, 3rd chapter of "High Price"
http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/graw_innen_pt3.pdf

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3. Week 3 Readings

Isabelle Graw, 2nd chapter of "High Price"

Abstracts from Jean-Joseph Goux's "Symbolic Economies"
http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/figurative_standards_goux.pdf
http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/goux_intro_1.pdf
http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/goux_intro_2.pdf

Georg Simmel "The Philosophy of Money" (the link is to the entire book, feel free to find a point of interest)
http://www.copperismoney.com/Files/philosophy_of_money.pdf

Karl Marx on the Power of Money
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/power.htm

youtube videos on the history of money
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0IJCGuNtqk

Also, here's a link of interest, that Tom Williams was kind enough to share:
http://fora.tv/2008/04/14/Artforum_at_The_New_School-Art_and_Money

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4. Week 2 Readings

The reading list for Week 2 is largely the same as week 1, we only suggested continuing with the Graw text to the end of the chapter. Moreover, we added a Hal Foster text.

For the introductory meeting we will look at the following texts:
Isabelle Graw, foreword and Chapter 1 to High Price
http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/graw_innen_pt1.pdf

The Medium is the Market
Hal Foster
http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/hal_foster_the_medium_is_the_market.pdf

Michel Foucault “What is Critique?”
http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/foucault_what_is_critique.pdf

Dietrich Dietrichson “On (Surplus) Value in Art”
http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/dietrichson.pdf

Barbara Rose "The Auction is the Action"
http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/rose_auction.pdf

and view a promotional video from Artprice, a French company that
serves as the largest database of the art sales records.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCyKRTX5bdg