The Changing Social Economy of Art Are the Arts Becoming Less Exclusive? /

• Main Author: Abbing, Hans (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Economics.; Culture-Economic aspects.; Public finance.; Cultural studies.; Management.; Entrepreneurship.; Popular Science in Economics.; Cultural Economics.; Public Economics.; Cultural Studies.; Cultural Management.

Is art for everybody? Why do art lovers attach so much value to authenticity, autonomy and authorship? Why did the arts become so serious in the first place? Why do many artists reject commerce and cultural entrepreneurship? Crucially, are any of the answers to these questions currently changing? Ha...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Preface
• Chapter 2: The Triumph of Serious Art
• Chapter 3: Authentic Art and Artists
• Chapter 4: Exclusion.-Chapter 5: Distrust of Commerce and Commercialism
• Chapter 6: Sharing Art
• Chapter 7: Conclusion.