ABSTRACT

This book examines artists’ engagements with design and architecture since the 1980s, and asks what they reveal about contemporary capitalist production and social life. Setting recent practices in historical relief, and exploring the work of Dan Graham, Rita McBride, Tobias Rehberger and Liam Gillick, Bill Roberts argues that design is a singularly valuable lens through which artists evoke, trace and critique the forces and relations of production that underpin everyday experience in advanced capitalist economies.

chapter 1|29 pages

Introduction

Design’s Significance for Contemporary Art

chapter 3|18 pages

Rita McBride’s Sculpture of Flows

chapter 4|34 pages

Tobias Rehberger’s Exquisite Corp.

chapter 5|33 pages

Liam Gillick’s Flights of Flexibility

chapter 6|2 pages

Afterword