Artists in Offices: An Ethnography of an Academic Art Scene

by Judith Adler

Universities have become important sources of patronage and professional artistic preparation. With the growing academization of art instruction, young artists are increasingly socialized in bureaucratic settings, and mature artists find themselves working as organizational employees in an academic setting. As these artists lose the social marginality and independence associated with an earlier, more individual aesthetic production, much cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878552812
• ISBN13: 9780878552818
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 165 Pages