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Art and the Challenge of Markets Volume 2: From Commodification to Artistic Critiques Capitalism
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Art and the Challenge of Markets Volume 2: From Commodification to Artistic Critiques Capitalism
Current price: $129.99
Barnes and Noble
Art and the Challenge of Markets Volume 2: From Commodification to Artistic Critiques Capitalism
Current price: $129.99
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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.