About one in three people in North America and Europe collects something. Collecting is clearly an important social phenomenon and yet surprisingly little is known about how and why we collect. On Collecting explores the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people livin…
1. Introduction : who goes to the contemporary arts? -- 2. Understanding audiences : research methods and approaches -- 3. "But is it art?" : defining the contemporary arts -- 4. Cities for the arts : the importance of place in audience engagement -- 5. Art forms, venues and aud…
"This collection of new essays by specialist authors addresses women's activities as patrons and as 'patronized' artists over the course of the century. It provides a much needed examination, with admirable breadth and variety, of women's artistic production and patronage during…
Overview: Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer's monumental stitched paintings to Twomey's large, ceramics-based ins…
This volume examines how artistic processes are shaped by their social settings and the impact that social and cultural contexts have on the way in which artistic products are greeted by audiences.
"Explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of history and of time itself and is peculiar to our current moment"…
