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THE CHANGING SOCIAL ECONOMY OF ART - HANS ABBIN...

Is art for everybody? Why do art lovers attach so much value to authenticity  autonomy and
authorship? Why did the arts become so serious in the first place? Why do many artists reject
commerce and cultural entrepreneurship? Crucially  are any of the answers to these questions
currently changing? Hans Abbing is uniquely placed to answer such questions  and  drawing on
his experiences as an economist and sociologist as well as a professional artist  in this
volume he addresses them head on.In order to investigate changes in the social economy of the
arts  Abbing compares developments in the established arts with those in the popular arts and
proceeds to outline key ways that the former can learn from the latter  by lowering the cost of
production  fostering innovation  and becoming less exclusive. These assertions are
contextualized with analysis of the separation between serious art and entertainment in the
nineteenth century  lending credence to the idea that government-supported art worlds have
promoted the exclusion of various social groups. Abbing outlines how this is presently changing
and why  while the established arts have become less exclusive  they are not yet for everybody.

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