Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System

The main objective of this book is to explain how contemporary literatures in Spanish and Portuguese are dealing with artistic creativity when artmaking is no longer a specialised field of cultural production, but rather an expanded field of socioeconomic interaction, personal and creative self-definition and collective imagination.

Carlos Garrido Castellano is Lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland.

Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction. Art F(r)ictions: Assessing the Contemporary Art Novel Section 1: Do We Live in Neoliberal Art Worlds? Chapter 2 The Aesthetics of Narcocapitalist Politics Chapter 3 Art Economies and Energy Colonialism, Luanda Version Section 2: Literature and Artistic Subjectivity: Expertise, Entrepreneurialism, Activism. Chapter 4 Redefining Artistic Expertise in Pre- and Post-Crisis Portugal Chapter 5 "Killing Several Birds with One Stone": Art Activism and Financial Speculation in the Dominican Republic Section 3: The Contemporary Art Novel: Forms, Uses, Formations Chapter 6 The Novel after Art Theory: Neoliberalism as Reterritorialization in the Spanish State Chapter 7 The Phenomenology of the Art Novel Chapter 8 The Transdividual Art Novel Index