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Creative Infrastructures: Art, Money, and Entrepreneurial Action

Creative Infrastructures: Art, Money, and Entrepreneurial Action

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Creative Infrastructures: Art, Money, and Entrepreneurial Action

W037064 | $36.00

Linda Essig. Intellect Books, Bristol, 2022.

202 pp. no illustrations. 25 x 17 cm. In English. Paperbound.

ISBN 9781789385717

As in sports, business, and other sectors, the top 1% of artists have disproportionately influenced public expectations for what it means to be successful. In Creative Infrastructures, Linda Essig takes an unconventional approach and looks at the quotidian artist—and at what they do, not what they make. All too often, artists who are attentive to the business side of their creative practice are accused of selling out. But for many working artists, that attention to business is what enables them not just to survive but to thrive. When artists follow their mission, Essig contends that they don’t sell out, they spiral up by keeping mission at the forefront. With illustrative case studies from culturally and racially diverse communities, Essig examines the relationships between art, innovation, entrepreneurship, and money while offering a theory for arts entrepreneurship that places more emphasis on means than ends.

Subject Headings: International ; Western Art -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 ; Post-2000 -- Criticism/Theory --

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