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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300011403321

Autore

Wesner Simone

Titolo

Artists’ Voices in Cultural Policy : Careers, Myths and the Creative Profession after German Unification / / by Simone Wesner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-76057-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 197 p. 2 illus.)

Collana

New Directions in Cultural Policy Research, , 2730-924X

Disciplina

353.7

Soggetti

Cultural policy

Industrial sociology

Arts

Germany—Politics and government

Culture—Study and teaching

Cultural Policy and Politics

Sociology of Work

German Politics

Cultural Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part One.-1. Introduction: Understanding Artists -- 2. The Artist and the Artistic Myth -- 3. Memory -- 4. Identity -- Part Two -- 5. Inherited Certainties: Transitional Cultural Policies and Visual Artists -- 6. Artists’ Professionalization and Careers in the Cultural Policy Landscape -- 7. Conclusion: Artists, Policy and the Future of the Professional Class.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines visual artists’ careers in the East German region of Saxony, as seen through the lens of cultural policy studies. The book discusses how myth binaries, memory layers and identity markers shaped artists professional lives in an interwoven and fluid approach following German unification, taking a fresh look at the intricacies of visual artists’ careers within the specifics of the cultural, social and political changes. It surveys artists’ professional practice and work under the new framework of the professional class, and discusses the



implications for the profession of artists with special reference to visual artists. Simone Wesner looks beyond geographical and political contexts and provides the reader with a longitudinal narrative that produces a revised understanding of artists’ careers within the cultural policy context. .