Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist.
The Art Bulletin › Vol. 83 Nbr. 1, March 2001
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Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist.
CAROLINE A. JONES
Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 561 pp; 121 b/w ills. hardcover, $60 Under the pressure of structuralism and post-structuralism's critique, art historians, critics, and theorists have begun to abandon the positivist, causal logic that had become endemic to their disciplines. In its place they have adopted a new perspective in which the work of art is viewed as a social document--that is to say, they conceive the work as a record of a culture's conscious and unconscious account of its relationship to its worldview. As such, the work is conceived as being inscribed both by the subjectivity of its producer and by the lived texts of the culture from which it emerges, rather than by one or the other. To read art as such a text calls for specificity rather than a broad, abstract, causal schema based on ideology. What is implicit in this approach is a criticism of those...See the full content of this document
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