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Title: Uncommon Goods
Author : Jaimey Hamilton Faris
Release Date : January 16, 2013
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 4498 KB

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Jaimey Hamilton Far is discusses the artists who have popularized these forms Ai Weiwei, Takashi Murakami, Thomas Hirschhorn, Santiago Sierra, subRosa, Super flex, and more. Since trade liberalization in the nineties, these artists have become interested in the ways in which everything from plastic and cloth, to information, labor, and land have been defined and maintained as commodities. On a sensate level, their works explore the complex negotiations they have with the commodity world is fantastic and continuous becoming. They also register prevalent concerns about international migrant labor, outsourced manufacturing, access to and privatization of natural resources, and the ethics of intellectual copyright. Jaimey Hamilton Far is argues that these artists strategically emphasize our material world in order to invite viewers to take another look at the hidden ethical dimensions of ordinary things. Just what kind of common global community have we created with our international flow of goods?