Realizing the Values of Art: Making Space for Cultural Civil Society

by Erwin Dekker and Valeria Morea

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031245970
• ISBN13: 9783031245978
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"