| Description |
xvii, 392 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Public arts funding in America and Britain: preliminaries -- 3. The changing role of government in the arts -- 4. Guardians of the enterprise culture: art trustees -- 5. Embracing the enterprise culture: art institutions since the 1980s -- 6. Corporate art awards -- 7. Showcases of contemporary art within corporate premises -- 8. Corporate art collections -- 9. Conclusion: from conservatism to neo-conservatism |
| Summary |
From Absolut Vodka's sponsorship of student art shows to BMW's logo on the banners advertising major art exhibitions, corporate sponsorship and business involvement in the visual arts have become increasingly common features of our cultural lives. Chin-tao Wu's book is the first concerted attempt to detail the various ways in which business values and the free-market ethos have come to permeate the sphere of the visual arts since the 1980s. It analyses the role of government in injecting the principles of the free market into public arts agencies in particular the Arts Council in Great Britain and the National Endowment for the Arts in the USA. It looks at the corporate take-over of art museums, highlighting the ways in which cultural capital can thereby be garnered by business elites; and it considers the ways in which corporations have succeeded in integrating themselves into the infrastructure of the art world itself by showcasing contemporary art in their own corporate premises |
| Analysis |
Great Britain |
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United States |
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Arts policy |
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Corporations |
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Culture |
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Museums and galleries |
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Patronage |
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Privatisation |
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Executives |
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Statistics |
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Overseas item |
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Cultural capital |
| Notes |
Includes bibliography and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-375) and index |
| Subject |
Art patronage.
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Corporations -- Art collections -- Great Britain.
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Corporate sponsorship -- United States.
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Privatization.
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Art patronage -- United States.
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Art patronage -- Great Britain.
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Corporations -- Art collections.
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Art -- Economic aspects.
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Art and state -- United States.
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Art and state -- Great Britain.
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| LC no. |
2002280745 |
| ISBN |
1859844723 paperback |
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1859846130 |
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