Artists are under pressure from two conflicting sets of sociocultural expectations. On the one hand, they are expected to conform to the historically grounded myth of the artist as heroic genius. On the other hand, they must meet the expectations of the state (plus ensure their own survival) as economic contributors. One way that these conflicting pressures are managed by artists working within the traditional art world is by separating the creator from the labourer through the use of intermediaries such as dealer galleries, critics, publishers and agents. This allows the artist to symbolically distance themselves from the economic structures that allow them to continue to work. However, for those artists working outside of these syst...
This research reveals the social relations of the art world through an investigation of visual artis...
The questions this thesis sought to answer are: How do artists perceive themselves as visual communi...
From Introduction: In Aesthetics after Modernism, Peter Fuller writes that "good art can only be rea...
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Despite the expansion of the contemporary art world and art market and the increased attention this ...
Transformations of the contemporary world have changed the artist’s work, therefore the artist’s ima...
As the online persona becomes ever more ubiquitous, those who create them must negotiate increasingl...
Networked art is not just a niche cultural form. This dynamic sphere of creative practice has signif...
As we enter the second phase of creative industries there is a shift away from the early 1990s ideol...
Economists and sociologists have long discussed value creation in the arts and the mechanisms explai...
Over the past decade, the artworld has seen the emergence of various new art genres such as post-int...
Abstract provided by author.As the online persona becomes ever more ubiquitous, those who create the...
This study examines the interplay between identity positions, dominant ideologies, and discursive pr...
The purpose of this thesis is to identify the main characteristics of the perceived relationship bet...
If we are co-designing our own iron cages, how do we find ways to be less dominated by these overpow...
This research reveals the social relations of the art world through an investigation of visual artis...
The questions this thesis sought to answer are: How do artists perceive themselves as visual communi...
From Introduction: In Aesthetics after Modernism, Peter Fuller writes that "good art can only be rea...
markdownabstractAbstract What is the political role that artistic practices, characterised for ...
Despite the expansion of the contemporary art world and art market and the increased attention this ...
Transformations of the contemporary world have changed the artist’s work, therefore the artist’s ima...
As the online persona becomes ever more ubiquitous, those who create them must negotiate increasingl...
Networked art is not just a niche cultural form. This dynamic sphere of creative practice has signif...
As we enter the second phase of creative industries there is a shift away from the early 1990s ideol...
Economists and sociologists have long discussed value creation in the arts and the mechanisms explai...
Over the past decade, the artworld has seen the emergence of various new art genres such as post-int...
Abstract provided by author.As the online persona becomes ever more ubiquitous, those who create the...
This study examines the interplay between identity positions, dominant ideologies, and discursive pr...
The purpose of this thesis is to identify the main characteristics of the perceived relationship bet...
If we are co-designing our own iron cages, how do we find ways to be less dominated by these overpow...
This research reveals the social relations of the art world through an investigation of visual artis...
The questions this thesis sought to answer are: How do artists perceive themselves as visual communi...
From Introduction: In Aesthetics after Modernism, Peter Fuller writes that "good art can only be rea...