Description
Book SynopsisArts and Business aims at bringing arts and business scholars together in a dialogue about a number of key topics that today form different understandings in the two disciplines. Arts and business are, many times, positioned as opposites. Where one is providing symbolic and aesthetic immersion, the other is creating goods for a market and markets for a good. They often deal and struggle with the same issues, framing it differently and finding different solutions.
This book has the potential of offering both critical theoretical and empirical understanding of these subjects and guiding further exploration and research into this field. Although this dichotomy has a well-documented existence, it is reconstructed through the writing-out of business in art and vice versa.
This edited volume distinguishes itself from other writings aimed at closing the gap between art and business, as it does not have a firm standpoint in one of these fields, but treati
Table of Contents
Section 1: The Arts and Business: Contemporary and Historical Dialogues
1. Aesthetics of Collective Action: Φ and Π in a Twisted Impromptu on Art and Research by Operational Aesthetics
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux and Philippe Mairesse
2. The Art and Business of ‘Being Critical’
Daniel Ericsson and Magnus Eriksson
3. Media Art in the Context of Art, Science and the Market: A Historical Perspective
Claudia Schnugg and Victoria Vesna
Section 2: Organizing Collaboration
4. To The Manger! Collaboration in the Age of Access
Kent Hansen and Anke Strauß
5. Embedding the Corporate Story through Performance
Tracy Harwood and Sophy Smith
6. Understanding Sponsorship Relationships
Janina Panizza and David Stewart
Section 3: Performing and Agreeing on Values
7. A Short Dialogue on the Meaning of Performance
Emilie Reinhold and Kahena Sanaâ
8. Evaluating Value: Stolen, Disappearing and Pseudonymous Art
Chloe Preece and Aleksandra Bida
9. Community Arts: On the Precarious Compromise between the Inspirational and the Civic Worlds
Ester Barinaga
10. Re-casting Legitimacy: Validation and Criticality as Contemporary Art Joins Cultural Business
Ravi Dar and Pamela Schutz Nybacka
Section 4: Leadership and Power
11. Leadership in Art and Business
Katja Lindqvist
12. Portraits of the Artist as Cultural Entrepreneur
Kerry McCall and Maeve Houlihan
13. The Conundrum of Power: Sintering Structural and Relational Perspectives in Business and Arts Organizations
Yuliya Shymko and Alison Minkus
14. La Fileuse de Reims, a Place Where Artists can Work: A Dialogue between the Founder and One of the Residents
Elen Riot and Pauline Quantin
Section 5: Learning, Knowledge and Thinking
15. Valuing the Other: Exposing Undergraduates to the Art of Business and the Business of Arts
Andrew Power and Michael MacDonnell
16. Management: Stepping Back Through Arts
Dorina Coste, Isabelle Né and Marianella Fornerino
17. The Rag Rug: Weaving Together Artistic and Business Patterns of Thinking
Nina Bozic Yams and Elisabeth Helldorff
