The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers (Culture and Economic Life)
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (783 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1503603822 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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For professionals and hobbyists alike, the alliance of love and money has become central to contemporary art-making, and danger awaits those who fail to strike a balance between the two.The stories artists tell are just as much a part of artistic practice as putting brush to canvas or chisel to marble. Listening to the stories of artists from across the United States, Gerber finds patterns of agreements and disagreements shared by art-makers from all walks of life. All of these artists might well be shown in the same exhibition, the quality of work far more important than education or income in determining whether one counts as
. at Yale University. Today she is a researcher in the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University in Sweden and writes about the intersection of culture and public life, from tax audits to noise music. Alison Gerber worked as an artist before earning her Ph.D
This account expands our insight into a cutting edge area of economic and cultural sociology, examining the art world where questions of valuation and good work are highly salient, and provides an exciting approach to how material objects are given value. "The Work of Art offers an intimate investigation of the economics of earning a living making art: where the money comes from and where it goes, and how artists justify, to themselves and others, their strategies for supporting their work. Alison Gerber makes a solid contribution to sociology, to economics, and to our understanding of the practicalities of an artistic career." (Howard S. Personal and powerful, Gerber's work will alter how those who care about the lives of artists think about the role of money and identity in the creative process." (Gary Alan Fine author of Everyday Genius) . Becker author of Art Worlds)"Alison Gerber's The Work of Art is a welcome treatme