Culture Incorporated: Museums, Artists, and Corporate Sponsorships

by Mark W. Rectanus

Book Overview

An expos of the hidden costs of corporate funding of the arts

Photographer Annie Leibowitz collaborates with American Express on a portrait exhibition. Absolut Vodka engages artists for their advertisements. Philip Morris mounts an "Arts Against Hunger" campaign in partnership with prominent museums. Is it art or PR, and where is the line that separates the artistic from the corporate? According to Mark Rectanus, that line...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816638527
• ISBN13: 9780816638529
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.7"