This book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making and the extent to which artist autonomy and authenticity in art is a struggle against psychological conditioning, controlling cultural institutions and markets, key to which is representation.
The chapters are underpinned by examples from the arts, and the narrative weaves a trail through a range of conceptualizations that are applied to various aspects of visual culture from mainstream canonical arts to avant-garde, community and public art; social and political art to commercial art; and ethereal art to the popular, edgy and kitsch. The book is wide-ranging and employs various aesthetic, cultural, philosophical, political, psycho-social and sociological debates to highlight the problems and contradictions that an encounter with the arts and creativity engenders.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, arts management, cultural policy, cultural studies and cultural theory.
ISBN: | 9781032324906 |
Publication date: | 20th August 2024 |
Author: | Paul Clements |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 214 pages |
Series: | Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies |
Genres: |
Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc Popular culture Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints Cognition and cognitive psychology Theory of art History of art Museology and heritage studies History |