Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention since the 1980s

"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." — from the publisher's website

Some b/w illustrations and tables included. With bibliography.

Access level

Onsite

author

WU Chintao, 吳金桃

publisher

Verso (London, United Kingdom)

Location code

REF.WCT2

Language

English

Keyword

award, sponsorship, cultural policy

Publication/Creation date

2003

No of pages

392

ISBN / ISSN

9781859844724

No of copies

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Introduction

Public arts funding in America and Britain: preliminaries

The changing role of government in the arts

Guardians of the enterprise culture: art trustees

Embracing the enterprise culture: art institutions since the 1980s

Corporate art awards

Showcases of contemporary art within corporate premises

Corporate art collections

Conclusion: from conservatism to neo-conservatism

Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention since the 1980s

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