Art in Public: Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture

by Lambert Zuidervaart

• ISBN13: 9780521130172
• ISBN10: 0521130174
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780511852695
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

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 nonprofit arts organization 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.

Table of Contents

Double Deficit

Culture wars

What good is art?

Just art?

Civil Society

Public sphere

Civic sector

Countervailing forces

Modernism Remixed

Relational autonomy

Authenticity and responsibility

Democratic culture

Transforming cultural policy

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