Artists in offices
Subtitle: an ethnography of an academic art scene
By: Judith E. Adler.
Publisher: Transaction Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: California Institute of the Arts.; Arts and society -- United States.; Arts -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.; Arts, American -- 20th century.
Description: "This ethnography, based on fieldwork and interviews carried out at the California Institute of the Arts in the 1980s, analyzes the day-to-day life of an organization devoted to work in the arts. It charts the rise and demise of a particular academic art "scene," an occupational utopian community that recruited its members by promising them an ideal work setting. Now available in paperback, it offers insights into the worlds of art and education, and how they interact in particular settings. The nature of career experience in the arts, in particular its temporal structure, makes these occupations particularly receptive to utopian thought. The occupational utopia that served as a recruitment myth for the particular organization under scrutiny is examined for what it reveals about the otherwise unexpressed impulses of the work world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-158) and index.