The linguistic economy of looking : production of values and creative subjectivities in the illustration industry in New York.

这个博士项目旨在研究在创意产业的背景下，艺术品评估的实践是如何将美学、经济、政治和伦理价值观灌输给视觉形式的，以及这些实践如何反过来塑造创意人员之间的身份和关系。特别注意的是插画家的活动和艺术总监谁雇用他们（共同）制作插图。这个生态系统特别有趣，因为它在创造性的浪漫概念（即非异化的工作）和高度竞争市场中异化劳动力的资本主义压力之间占据了一个有限的空间。我感兴趣的评价实践既有正式的，也有非正式的，是由观察的行为与语言的行为纠缠在一起，以评估形式、颜色等的组合，理解具有一定价值的重要“风格”。风格的概念是创意产业的一个规范原则，既是艺术家内心的指标性标志，也是给定市场的一个利基。我将密切关注艺术作品的审美判断与在不稳定和竞争激烈的自由职业实践插图的背景下制作它们的人的道德判断相一致的过程。该项目将美学、经济学和伦理学结合在一起，旨在从民族志的角度研究创造性作品价值生产的核心——视觉行为和语言行为。

This PhD project proposes to look at how practices of evaluation of artworks imbue visual forms with aesthetic,economic, political and ethical values in the context of the creative industry and how in turn these practices shape theidentities and relationships between creatives. Particular attention will be paid to the activities of illustrators and the artdirectors who hire them in the (co)production of illustrations. This ecosystem is particularly interesting because itoccupies a liminal space between a romantic conception of creativity as unalienated work and the capitalist pressure ofalienated labour in a highly competitive market. The practices of evaluation I'm interested in are both formal and informal,constituted of acts of looking entangled with acts of language to evaluate assemblages of form, colours, etc. understoodas significant "styles" with certain values. The concept of style is a regulative principle of the creative industry and servesboth as an indexical icon of the artist's interiority as well as one of a given market niche. I will look closely at theprocesses through which aesthetic judgments of artworks are aligned with moral judgments of the people who makethem in the context of the precarious and competitive freelance practice illustration often is. Tying together aesthetics,economics and ethics, this projects seeks to investigate ethnographically the acts of looking and acts of language at thecore of the production of value of creative work.