Lifework : On the autobiographical impulse in contemporary art, writing, and theory
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1526194783
ISBN-13
9781526194787
Publisher
Manchester University Press
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Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 20th, 2026
Print length
334 Pages
Weight
723 grams
Dimensions
24.00 x 17.00 x 2.30 cms
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This collection explores what Roland Barthes termed the ‘autobiographical turn’ in art, literature and critical theory since the mid-1960s. Through a variety of perspectives, it examines the relationship between work and life, notions of the ‘self’ and what autobiography might mean today. -- .
Following the critical scepticism surrounding the notion of the ''self'' as a singular entity during the 1960s, many artists and writers sought to test the apparent problem posed by autobiography as both a traditional genre and as a way of working. Considering the consequent emergence of autotheory, Lifework traces this shift in artistic and literary production during the late twentieth century and beyond, examining a set of diverse practices that mine the line between what it is to make art and what it is to live life. The book''s chapters connect a variety of artistic strategies that cut across medium, geography and time, uncovering how the historical marginalisation of first-person experience has taken on larger social, cultural and political implications in the contemporary moment and how the work of living might still relate to the work of art.
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