Artistic Labor and the Production of Value: An Attempt at a Marxist Interpretation. Issue 2 (2nd April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Durán, José María
• Is Part Of: Rethinking Marxism. Volume 28:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 220
• Page End: 237
• Publication Date: 2016-04-02
• Subjects: Art -- Commodities -- Intellectual Property -- Labor -- Value; Communism -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 335.4305
• DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2016.1168250
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0893-5696

Abstract

Abstract : This essay addresses the production of value while considering the artistic labor process, with a focus on the visual arts. First, the commodity form of artistic works is examined and theoretical challenges are pointed out. Second, a specific ideology of the artistic labor process is considered. This ideology serves to conceal the economic relations of production that shape artistic labor as a producer of value. Finally, an analysis of the substance of value is proposed. Intellectual property rights are examined from the perspective of value production.