Examines questions of agency, artisanship, and identity in relation to collaborative art practice.

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. The Semantics of Collaboration2. Art Practice and the Intellectual BaroqueChapter 1: Autonomy, Antagonism, and the Aesthetic 191. From Text to Action2. Park Fiction, Ala Plastica, and Dialogue3. Relational Antagonism4. The Risk of Diversity5. Programmatic Multiplicity6. Art Theory and the Post-structuralist CanonChapter Two: The Genius of the Place 671. Lessons in Futility2. Enclosure Acts3. The Twelfth Seat and the Mirrored Ceiling4. The Atelier as Workshop5. Labor, Praxis, and Representation6. The Divided and Incomplete Subject of Yesterday7. Memories of Development8. The Limits of Ethical Capitalism9. The Art of the LocalityChapter Three: Eminent Domain: Art and Urban Space 1551. Blindness and Insight2. The Invention of the Public3. The Boulevards of the Inner City4. Park Fiction: Desire, Resistance, and Complicity5. A Culture of Needles: Project Row Houses in HoustonNotes 229References 281Index 295