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admit a desire to see all of these lesser-studied histories, as well as the topic
of collectivism itself, better reXected in the curriculum of contemporary art
history, media, cultural, and visual studies and done so with the complexity
that the subject clearly deserves. It is our unabashed hope that this volume
will help open the door to the study of collectivism, not as a means of “normalizing”
it or representing it as one more genus of artistic practice, but to
theorize it as a form of production and intervention that raises fundamental
questions about the nature of creative labor and how history is recorded
and transmitted, for whom, and to what ends.
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