Overview
- Draws on empirical materials to offer a theoretical approach to appraise the art world within a market-based, neo-liberal societal context
- Identifies the continued need to study the question of art’s deeper responsibility to society, outside of its economic worth
- Covers issues including culturalization of the economy, aesthetics and anti-aesthetics, and the societal benefits of works of art
Part of the book series: Sociology of the Arts (SOA)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Contemporary Capitalist Economy and the Demands of Art’s Societal Utility and Responsibility
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Alternative and Critical Art Production and Its Control
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Afterword
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Back Matter
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About this book
Art and the Challenge of Markets Volumes 1 & 2 examine the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors explore how in these two decades, the neoliberal or market-based model of capitalism started to spread from the economic realm to other areas of society. As a result, many aspects of contemporary Western societies increasingly function in the same way as the private enterprise sector under traditional market capitalism.
This second volume analyses the relationships of art with contemporary capitalist economies and instrumentalist cultural policies, and examines several varieties of capitalist-critical and alternative art forms that exist in today’s art worlds. It also addresses the vexed issues of art controversies and censorship. The chapters cover issues such as the culturalization of the economy, aesthetics and anti-aesthetics, thesocietal benefits of works of art, art's responsibility to society, "artivism", activist arts as protest and capitalism-critical works, and controversies over nudity in art, as well as considering the marketisation of emerging visual arts worlds in East Asia. The book ends with the a concluding chapter suggesting that even in today's marketized and commercialized environments, art will find a way.
Both volumes provide students and scholars across a range of disciplines with an incisive, comparative overview of the politics of art and culture and national, international and transnational art worlds in contemporary capitalism.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Victoria D. Alexander is Senior Lecturer, Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Samuli Hägg is Lecturer, Finnish and Literature, University of Eastern Finland.
Simo Häyrynen is Adjunct Professor of Cultural Policy, University of Eastern Finland.
Erkki Sevänen is Professor of Literature, University of Eastern Finland and Adjunct Professor of Aesthetics, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Art and the Challenge of Markets Volume 2
Book Subtitle: From Commodification of Art to Artistic Critiques of Capitalism
Editors: Victoria D. Alexander, Samuli Hägg, Simo Häyrynen, Erkki Sevänen
Series Title: Sociology of the Arts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64644-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64643-5Published: 30 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87842-3Published: 07 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64644-2Published: 16 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2569-1414
Series E-ISSN: 2569-1406
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 328
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Social Theory, Globalization, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Arts