{"product_id":"art-and-production","title":"Art and Production","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoris Arvatov's Art and Production is a classic of the early Soviet avant-garde. Now nearing a century since its first publication, it is a crucial intervention for those seeking to understand the social dynamic of art and revolution during the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDerived from the internal struggles of Soviet Constructivism, as it confronted the massive problems of cultural transformation after 'War Communism', Arvatov's writing is a major force in the split that occurred in the revolutionary horizons of Constructivism in the early 1920s. Critical of early Constructivism's social-aesthetic process of art's transformation of daily life - epitomised in studio-based painting, photography and object making - Arvatov polemicises for the devolution of artistic skills directly into the relations of production and the factory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst acknowledging the problems of a pure factory-based Productivism, Arvatov remains overwhelmingly committed to a new role and function for art outside the conventional studio and traditional gallery. Addressing issues such as artistic labour and productive labour, the artist as technician, art and multidisciplinarity and a life for art beyond 'art' - finding new relevance amidst the extensive social turn of contemporary participatory art - Art and Production offers a timely and compelling manifesto.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67675140882563,"sku":"9780745337364","price":39.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/8847\/1939\/files\/9780745337364.jpg?v=1792443637","url":"https:\/\/salter.mom\/products\/art-and-production","provider":"salter.mom","version":"1.0","type":"link"}