Art and the Challenge of Markets Volume 2 From Commodification of Art to Artistic Critiques of Capitalism

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 starte...

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Other Authors: Alexander, Victoria D. (Editor), Hägg, Samuli (Editor), Häyrynen, Simo (Editor), Sevänen, Erkki (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
Series:Sociology of the Arts
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part One: Introduction
  • 1. The Capitalist Economy as a Precondition and Restraint of Modern and Contemporary Art Worlds
  • Part Two: Contemporary Capitalist Economy and the Demands of Art’s Societal Utility and Responsibility
  • 2. Culturalization of the Economy and the Artistic Qualities of Contemporary Capitalism
  • 3. Neoliberal Marketization of Global Contemporary Visual Art Worlds: Changes in Valuations and the Scope of Local and Global Markets
  • 4. Art, Capitalist Markets, and Society: Insights and Reflections on Contemporary Art
  • 5. Art as a Means to Produce Societal Benefits and Social Innovations
  • 6. A Plea for Responsible Art: Politics, the Market, Creation
  • Part Three: Alternative and Critical Art Production and its Control
  • 7. Artistic Critique on Capitalism as a Practical and Theoretical Problem
  • 8. De-Aestheticization and the Dialectics of the Aesthetic and Anti-Aesthetic in Contemporary Art
  • 9. Artivism and the Spiritof Avant-Garde Art
  • 10. Dirty Pictures. Scandal and Censorship in Contemporary Art
  • Part Four: Afterword
  • 11. Manifestations and Conditions of Art.