Arts & economics : analysis & cultural policy / Bruno S. Frey.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Springer, 2003Edition: Second editionDescription: x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 3540002731
- 9783540002734
- Arts and economics
- 700.103 21
- NX634 .F74 2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Economics of Art: A Personal Survey -- Ch. 2. Art: The Economic Point of View -- Ch. 3. For Art's Sake - Open Up the Vaults -- Ch. 4. Superstar Museums -- Ch. 5. Special Exhibitions and Festivals: Culture's Booming Path to Glory -- Ch. 6. Private Faces in Public Places: A Case Study of the New Beyeler Art Museum -- Ch. 7. How Can the Arts Be Publicly Promoted? -- Ch. 8. Public Support for the Arts in a Direct Democracy -- Ch. 9. Creativity, Government and the Arts -- Ch. 10. Art Investment Returns -- Ch. 11. Evaluating Cultural Property -- Ch. 12. Art Fakes - What Fakes?.
Using the economic point of view for an analysis of phenomena related to artistic activities, Arts & Economics not only challenges widely held popular views, but also offers an alternative perspective to sociological or art historic approaches. The wide range of subjects presented are of current interest and, above all, relevant for cultural policy. The issues discussed include: institutions from festivals to "superstar" museums, different means of supporting the arts, including the question whether artistic creativity is undermined by public intervention, an investigation into art as an investment, the various approaches applied when valuing our cultural properties, or why, in a comparative perspective, direct voter participation in cultural policy is not antagonistic to artistic values.
"Using the economic point of view for an analysis of phenomena related to artistic activities, Arts & Economics not only challenges widely held popular views, but also offers an alternative perspective to sociological or art historic approaches."--BOOK JACKET.
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