26 hod., povinná

Week 1: Introduction — Art, Labor, and Class Week 2: The Artist as Worker and Class Subject. The economic and class conditions of artists, including precarity, self-exploitation, and gig labor. Week 3: Artisanship, Industrialization, and the Working Class. The rise of industrial capitalism and its effects on the status of labor and aesthetic production. Week 4: Class Representation in Art. How are the working class and labor represented in historical and contemporary art? Week 5: Feminist Labor and the Gendered Division of Class. How does gender and class intersect in the valuation of domestic, reproductive, and artistic labor? Week 6: Labor in Cultural Institutions. The labor and class structures behind the scenes in museums and galleries. Week 7: Class, Collectivity, and Alternative Economies. Class consciousness and collective action in artistic practices. Week 8: Marxist and Post-Marxist Perspectives on Artistic Labor. How does class struggle and alienation inform artistic production and critique? Week 9: The Global Division of Artistic Labor. Global capitalism, supply chains, and the outsourcing of creative and manual labor in the arts. Week 10: Digital Labor, Class Mobility, and Creative Economies. How does class operate within digital creative platforms and gig economies? Week 11: Class Struggles in Art Education. Who can afford to become an artist? Educational institutions as class filters. Week 12: Art in Labor Movements. How have artists supported or led labor struggles through visual and performative practices? Week 13: Final Projects + Class Synthesis. Students present critical projects that analyze specific artwork, movement, or institution in relation to class and labor.