Art as capital: the intersection of science, technology and the arts

In global terms, creative industries are on the rise, as are new media investigations in art and initiatives that encourage innovation in the arts, for end-use in the economy. However, there is a significant lack of critical reflection on this form of creative production. This important book points...

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1. Verfasser: Tratnik, Polona 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lanham Rowman & Littlefield [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Global aesthetic research
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Zusammenfassung:In global terms, creative industries are on the rise, as are new media investigations in art and initiatives that encourage innovation in the arts, for end-use in the economy. However, there is a significant lack of critical reflection on this form of creative production. This important book points out the dangers and downfalls that accompany such a boom of the creative industries and the subordination of art to the economy and politics. Specifically, it shows that art, as a mode of social and aesthetic practice, is losing the very thing which it has striven for so desperately in the course of modernity: its independence from other spheres of human activity.
Beschreibung:xii, 186 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:9781538154229