Event overview
Book launch / "Art and the Challenge of Markets", edited by Victoria D. Alexander, Samuli Hägg, Simo Häyrynen and Erkki Sevänen, and published by Palgrave
We are celebrating the publication of two linked books edited by Dr Victoria D. Alexander, Senior Lecturer at Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, with colleagues Samuli Hägg, Simo Häyrynen and Erkki Sevänen from Finland. These two books - Art and the Challenge of Markets, Volume 1: National Cultural Politics and the Challenges of Marketization and Globalization and Art and the Challenge of Markets, Volume 2: From Commodification of Art to Artistic Critiques of Capitalism were both recently published by Palgrave in its Sociology of the Arts Series.
Art and the Challenge of Markets Volumes 1 & 2 examine the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s.
The first volume considers a broad range of national cultural policies from European and North American countries, and examines the strengthening of international and transnational art worlds in music, visual arts, film, and television.
The second volume analyses the relationships of art with contemporary capitalist economies and instrumentalist cultural policies, and examines several varieties of capitalist-critical and alternative art forms that exist in today’s art worlds. It also addresses the vexed issues of art controversies and censorship. Both volumes provide students and scholars across a range of disciplines with an incisive, comparative overview of the politics of art and culture and national, international and transnational art worlds in contemporary capitalism.
Please join us for drinks and speeches by Dr Katherine Appleford and Dr Dave O'Brien, co-editors of the "Sociology of the Arts" at Palgrave Macmillan, as well as Dr Victoria Alexander, co-editor of the two books.
Dates & times
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9 May 2018 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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