Realizing the Values of Art: Making Space for Cultural Civil Society
Realizing the Values of Art: Making Space for Cultural Civil Society
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031245970 | 225 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031245970 | 225 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
This book provides a novel approach to the understanding and realization of the values of art. It argues that art has often been instrumentalized for state-building, to promote social inclusion of diversity, or for economic purposes such as growth or innovation. To counteract that, the authors study the values that artists and audiences seek to realize in the social practices around the arts. They develop the concept of cultural civil society to analyze how art is practiced and values are realized in creative circles and co-creative communities of spectators. The insights are illustrated with case-studies about hip-hop, Venetian art collectives, dance festivals, science-fiction fandom, and a queer museum. The authors provide a four-stage scheme that illustrates how values are realized in a process of value orientation, imagination, realization, and evaluation.