Realizing the values of art : making space for cultural civil society

Realizing the values of art : making space for cultural civil society / Erwin Dekker, Valeria Morea.

This book provides a novel approach to the understanding and realization of the values of art. It argues that art has often been instrumentalized for state-building, to promote social inclusion of diversity, or for economic purposes such as growth or innovation. To counteract that, the authors study...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dekker, Erwin, 1984- (Author)
Other Authors: Morea, Valeria
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Series:Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:
Arts and society.
Arts > Economic aspects.
Civil society.
Cultural policy.
Arts and society
Arts > Economic aspects
Civil society
Cultural policy
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • 1 A Pragmatic Approach to Art
  • Let's Unwrap the Argument...
  • There Are Many Different Values, and New Ones Are Discovered Irregularly
  • Values Can Clash with Each Other, Sometimes Violently
  • Measuring Values Requires Engagement with Artistic Practices
  • Here Is How We Will Proceed
  • References
  • 2 What Values Are, and How We Learn to Appreciate Them
  • Market Goods and Other People Are Essential
  • Values Are Embedded in Social Practices
  • The Context of Values Are Orders of Worth
  • The Values of a Hip-Hop Artist
  • Value Discovery
  • References
  • 3 How Artists Imagine New Worlds
  • Forget the Solitary Genius, Artists Imagine Together
  • Artists Operate in Circles, Which Are Sustained Through Contributions
  • Circles Benefit From the Proximity of Circles in Neighboring Disciplines
  • Within Circles, Knowledge Is Generated, and Artists Imagine New Possibilities
  • Modernists Imagined Too Wildly, Postmodernists Too Ironically
  • A New Form of Imagination Is in the Making
  • Imaging and Living a Different Venice
  • Contemporary Imagination Is About the Development of Social Practices Which Embody Values
  • The Diversity of Social Practices Around the Arts Constitutes Cultural Civil Society
  • Cultural Civil Society Often Flies Under the Radar, but it Can Be Mapped
  • Cultural Civil Society Operates at the Intersection of the Private and the Public Sphere
  • Public Values Might Converge, but Co-Existence and Tolerance Are Primary
  • Making Space Means Fostering Diversity and Protecting Minorities
  • Making Space: Marginal Improvements
  • References
  • 6 Epilogue: Imagining a Heterotopia
  • References
  • References
  • Index

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