Art As Enterprise
Subtitle: Social and Economic Engagement in Contemporary Art
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited; I.B. Tauris
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781784534103
Subjects: Art, modern, 21st century; Art, economic aspects; Art and society; Art patronage
Description: 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 terrain with the promise of an alternative model of economic organisation in the arts. Grace McQuilten and Anthony White argue that artists can, and have, engaged critically in the commercial market, by way of this model.