Art, Money, Parties: New Institutions in the Political Economy of Contemporary Art (Tate Liverpool Critical Forum, 7) (Volume 7)

Liverpool University Press [Published date: 2004]. Art, Money, Parties: New Institutions in the Political Economy of Contemporary Art. Critical Forum, Volume 7. Softcover, 216 pp; color illustrations, portrait; 22 cm. Includes list of illustrations, acknowledgements, and contributors. In very good condition. Pictorial paper covers with cover image of Tracey Emin's tent installation, interior image detail on rear cover; light edgewear and faint surface scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. [From front flap] This collection of essays sets out to identify and examine the kinds of new institutions and social relations that have emerged and begun to shape the global organisation of contemporary visual art over the past twenty-five years. These institutions and relations, variously organised, are not simply implicated in the exhibition of art - they have come to play significant roles in commissioning art production as well as mediating its reception in a number of different ways. Given this reorganisation, the set of concepts through which the 'art world' can be thought must be radically reviewed. Developments and transformations in, for example, patronage and managerial arrangements - on a global scale - have begun to alter these formations. Institutions, categories, and terms such as 'institution', 'means of production' and 'art world' itself are invoked and critically scrutinised in all of the essays in this book. Some authors address these and other concepts within detailed empirical case studies, others by experimental application of novel theoretical premises. This collection also includes discussion by those directly involved in the production and selling of contemporary art, reviewing the increasingly internationalised network now ordering contemporary art's conditions of production, mediation and consumption. The book combines the complex interaction of the socio-political forces that bear on the art world as well as the tensions between those with different interests in art, raising vital questions about the changed relations between art, society and politics. Contents include: Introduction: Elements towards a historical sociology of contemporary art (Jonathan Harris); 'Art, Money, Parties' and Liverpool Biennial (Lewis Biggs); Cannibal Hookers from beyond the Grave Meet the Art Crazies at Zombie Island (Stewart Home); Sadie Coles HQ: Anatomy of a Gallery in the Age of Globalised Contemporary Art (Sadie Coles interviewed by Jonathan Harris); Public Art and Collective Amnesia (Paul Usherwood); Managing Disappointment: Arts Policy, Funding, and the Social Inclusion Agenda (Rory Francis); A Changed Experience of Space (Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Horbelt interviewed by Daniel Birnbaum); Art and Empire: Aesthetic Autonomy, Organisational Mediation and Contextualising Practices (Jeremy Valentine). Title: Art, Money, Parties: New Institutions in the Political Economy of Contemporary Art (Tate Liverpool Critical Forum, 7) (Volume 7) Author Name: Harris, Jonathan [Editor] ISBN Number: 0853237190 ISBN-13: 9780853237198 Location Published: Liverpool University Press: 2004-11-01 Binding: paperback Book Condition: Very Good Size: 6x0x9 Type: paperback Categories: Business & Economics, Art & Architecture Seller ID: 20250930010 Keywords: art, economics