Lifework

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 <i>Lifework </i>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.