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Alison Gerber, “The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Alison Gerber, “The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers” (Stanford UP, 2017)
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Jan 19, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Is making art a job? This question is central to The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers (Stanford University Press, 2017), the new book by Alison Gerber, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at Lund University. The book explores the working lives of artists by thinking through the idea of value in their work. At the heart of this exploration are four accounts of being an artist; four accounts of value; and four accounts of the occupation. These four accounts—pecuniary, credentialising, vocational, and relational—connect and conflict with each other to explain the place of both art and the artist in contemporary society. Using rich and detailed interview and ethnographic data, the book is essential reading for its contribution to contemporary sociology of culture and its insights into the art world.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jan 19, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Wendy Steiner, “The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art” (University of Chicago Press, 2010): As the last of what Wendy Steiner refers to as “a loose trilogy” with her earlier works, The Scandal of Pleasure (1995) and Venus in Exile (2001), The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art (University of Chicago, by New Books in Critical Theory