Abstract ‘The amateur’ is an unstable figure across geographic contexts that have shaped an extraordinary range of activity, from non-remunerated, self-organised, non-official, anti-ruling class, insurgent artistic efforts, to programmatic State efforts to marshal ‘folk’ production into national narratives of authentic belonging. With this special issue, the authors argue that an examination of this topic will benefit from the adoption of a global perspective from the outset, as well as a keen attention to the diverse circumstances of amateur making – in architecture, painting, music, poetry, television, video, film, photography and archiving. Amateurism can be fostered not only by the love of an art, but also by the will to survive economic and social precarity. Any attempt to periodise the amateur yields multiple chronologies built around distinct moments of significance. Yet the authors suggest that we are in a new age of amateurism, indicated by the wave of emerging scholarship on this topic, as well as an omnipresent general antipathy to the expertise of professional technocrats.

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业余爱好

摘要 “业余爱好者”是一个跨越地理环境的不稳定人物，它塑造了一系列非凡的活动，从无报酬的、自组织的、非官方的、反统治阶级的、叛乱的艺术努力，到计划性的国家组织努力民间的生产成为真正归属感的民族叙事。在本期特刊中，作者认为，从一开始就采用全球视角，以及对业余制作的不同环境——建筑、绘画、音乐、诗歌、电视、录像、电影、摄影和存档。业余精神不仅可以通过对艺术的热爱来培养，还可以通过在经济和社会不稳定中生存的意愿来培养。任何对业余爱好者进行分期的尝试都会产生围绕不同重要时刻建立的多个年表。然而，作者认为我们正处于业余主义的新时代，这一主题的新兴学术浪潮以及对专业技术官僚专业知识的普遍反感都表明了这一点。