The murmuring of the artistic multitude

Autor*innen

• Pascal Gielen

Parameter

• Kunst
• Kunst & Kultur
• Sozialwissenschaften
• Soziologie

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Here, art sociologist Pascal Gielen examines the notion that the global art economy-with its ever-renewable youth quota, its gender imbalance, flexible working hours and short-term contracts (or lack of contracts)-is wholly congruent with the worst aspirations of late capitalism, and is ripe for economic exploitation. Conscious that art also offers real liberties, Gielen also proposes alternative models and argues for a recognition of the values implied by the creative process, rather than by the subtle coercions of post-Fordist production imperatives to which we are all subject

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010