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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458883303321

Autore

Zuidervaart Lambert

Titolo

Art in public : politics, economics, and a democratic culture / / Lambert Zuidervaart [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-21263-4

0-511-85269-X

1-282-91746-3

9786612917462

0-511-76034-5

0-511-93151-4

0-511-93285-5

0-511-92766-5

0-511-92512-3

0-511-93017-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

700.1/03

Soggetti

Government aid to the arts

Democracy and the arts

Arts and society

Relational art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Feb 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Part I. Double Deficit: 1. Culture wars; 2. What good is art?; 3. Just art?; Part II. Civil Society: 4. Public sphere; 5. Civic sector; 6. Countervailing forces; Part III. Modernism Remixed: 7. Relational autonomy; 8. Authenticity and responsibility; 9/ Democratic culture; 10. Transforming cultural policy.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines fundamental questions about funding for the arts: why should governments provide funding for the arts? What do the arts contribute to daily life? Do artists and their publics have a social responsibility? Challenging questionable assumptions about the state, the arts and a democratic society, Lambert Zuidervaart presents a



vigorous case for government funding, based on crucial contributions the arts make to civil society. He argues that the arts contribute to democratic communication and a social economy, fostering the critical and creative dialogue that a democratic society needs. Informed by the author's experience leading a non-profit arts organisation as well as his expertise in the arts, humanities and social sciences, this book proposes an entirely new conception of the public role of art with wide-ranging implications for education, politics and cultural policy.