Paul Werner
Following up on "Museum, Inc.: Inside the Global Art World" (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2006), the author attempts a cogent theory of the economics of Art.,"For Werner, good Marxist that he is, the answer to our problems is not a retreat into intellectual purity but a dialectical,critique of both idealism and economism. His, he announces, is a book â€˜about cultural practices, and how those practices embrace, and are embraced by, economics'... What follows is a firecracker of a little book; polemical, witty, interesting, and original,,it will interest students of both museums and the politics of culture." - Gordon Fyfe,in Curator, the Museum Journal. ,The book is designed and illustrated by the author, with many colorful headings and quips. 60 pp., laser-printed, 5.3/4 x 8.5".
The Red Museum. Art, economics and the ends of capital