Art in Public: Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture
Cambridge University Press, 1/20/2011
EAN 9780521130172, ISBN10: 0521130174
Paperback, 354 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
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.
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.