Art in the Making: Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing

The first book to address the significance of the materials and methods used to make contemporary artworks. Today, artists are able to create using multiple methods of production―from painting to digital technologies to crowdsourcing―some of which would have been unheard of just a few decades ago. Authors Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson argue that the materials and processes used to make artworks are also vital to current considerations of authorship and to understanding the economic and social contexts from which art emerges. This includes a wide-ranging exploration of different methods and media in art since the 1950s.