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Article: The Art of Production
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- Artforum
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Artforum Inc. Oct 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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What was once seditious is now ubiquitous. If ninety years ago Marcel Duchamp infamously claimed the products of industry as his own and a half century later Donald Judd furthered this scandal by directly co-opting the language of manufacture, today artists employ the hands and machines of others so commonly as to scarcely draw notice. A cursory survey of contemporary galleries, biennials, and art magazines reveals that a vast preponderance of artworks in our time-like the two dozen apparently disparate examples arrayed here-involve outsourced labor, industrial processes, and custom fabrication. An artist might visit a specialized fabricator to realize a technologically ambitious project; ...