Artists' Voices in Cultural Policy Careers, Myths and the Creative Profession after German Unification /

• Main Author: Wesner, Simone (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, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research
• Subjects: Cultural policy.; Industrial sociology.; Arts.; Germany-Politics and government.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Cultural Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Work.; German Politics.; Cultural Theory.

This volume examines visual artists' careers in the East German region of Saxony, as seen through the lens of cultural policy studies. The book discusses how myth binaries, memory layers and identity markers shaped artists professional lives in an interwoven and fluid approach following German...

Table of Contents:

• Part One.-1. Introduction: Understanding Artists
• 2. The Artist and the Artistic Myth
• 3. Memory
• 4. Identity
• Part Two
• 5. Inherited Certainties: Transitional Cultural Policies and Visual Artists
• 6. Artists' Professionalization and Careers in the Cultural Policy Landscape
• 7. Conclusion: Artists, Policy and the Future of the Professional Class.