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Art as Enterprise: Social and Economic Engagement in Contemporary Art

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Art as Enterprise: Social and Economic Engagement in Contemporary Art - McQuilten, Grace, and White, Anthony
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Art is produced, circulated, consumed and disseminated within an economic system - it depends on money for its creation, for the livelihood of its makers, and for its distribution. In this sense, art can be understood as an enterprising activity. However, profit-making is rarely the primary goal of artists, and indeed the entanglement of art with enterprise generates significant aesthetic, conceptual, philosophical and ethical challenges for contemporary art practice. Social enterprise has emerged from this complex ...

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Art as Enterprise: Social and Economic Engagement in Contemporary Art 2015, I.B. Tauris, London

ISBN-13: 9781784534103

Hardcover