Katja Praznik, Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism

In this timely book, the sociologist of culture Katja Praznik analyses the paradoxical nature of art as socially useful labor and parses the regimes of compensation that artists receive under different political systems. Inspired by the feminist critique of the invisibility of domestic labor, she argues that the work of artists in the modern world has been rendered similarly invisible by the Enlightenment understanding of art as something supposedly autonomous from society and performed for t...