Art and Aesthetics at Work

by Carr, Adrian N.; Hancock, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780333968635
• ISBN10: 0333968638
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Over the last decade, aesthetic and art theory has played an increasingly significant role in the way work and its organization has come to be understood. Bringing together the work of an international spectrum of academics, this collection contributes, in an overall more critical vein, to such emerging debates. Combining both empirical and theoretical material, each chapter re-evaluates the emerging relationship between art, aesthetics, and work, exploring its potential as both a medium of critical analysis, and as a site of conflict and resistance.

Author Biography

Adrian Carr is Principal Research Fellow, Organization Studies & Applied Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney.

Philip Hancock is Lecturer in Sociology and Philosophy, Glasgow Calendonian University.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	vii
Preface	viii
Acknowledgements	xii
Notes on the Contributors	xiii
Part I Art and Aesthetics as a Way of Knowing Organization
Art and Aesthetics as a Way of Knowing Organization: Introduction	3	(4)
Adrian Carr
Philip Hancock
Art as a Form of Knowledge: The Implications for Critical Management	7	(31)
Adrian Carr
Looking into/out of* Organizations through the Rear Window: Voyeurism and Exhibitionism in Organization Studies (*delete as appropriate)	38	(13)
George Cairns
Tamar Jeffers
Reconciling Aesthetics and Justice in Organization Studies	51	(16)
Mary-Ellen Boyle
Part II Work as an Aesthetically Ordered Activity
Works as an Aesthetically Ordered Activity: Introduction	67	(3)
Philip Hancock
Adrian Carr
We're All Partying Here: Target and Games, or Targets as Games in Call Centre Management	70	(23)
Catrina Alferoff
David Knights
The Power of Organizational Song: An Organizational Discourse and Aesthetic Expression of Organizational Culture	93	(22)
Nick Nissley
Steven S. Taylor
Orville Butler
On the Manager's Body as an Aesthetics of Control	115	(20)
Nancy Harding
Part III Critical Engagements with Aesthetics at Work
Critical Engagements with Aesthetics at Work: Introduction	135	(3)
Philip Hancock
Adrian Carr
The Barren Landscape: Reading US Corporate Architecture	138	(17)
Astrid Kersten
Ronald Gilardi
An-Aesthetics and Architecture	155	(19)
Karen Dale
Gibson Burrell
Aestheticizing the World of Organization -- Creating Beautiful Unture Things	174	(21)
Philip Hancock
References	195	(15)
Index	210