Making Value and Career Building in the Creative Economy : Evidence from Contemporary Visual Art /
This work offers a nuanced perspective based on empirical evidence of the role of talent and creativity for economic growth, prosperity, social and spatial inequality, and precarity in creative cities by arguing that creativity and talent need to be valued and eventually rewarded to achieve sufficie...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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Publisher Address: | Cham : |
Publication Dates: | 2017. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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SpringerBriefs in Geography,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54030-6 |
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This work offers a nuanced perspective based on empirical evidence of the role of talent and creativity for economic growth, prosperity, social and spatial inequality, and precarity in creative cities by arguing that creativity and talent need to be valued and eventually rewarded to achieve sufficient conditions for individual economic success. Shedding light on the recent momentum of a growing convergence of cultural and economic spheres in post industrial societies by building on a case study of contemporary visual art from interviews with commercial gallerists. Written from an economic ge |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XI, 77 pages): illustrations. |
ISBN: | 9783319540306 |
Index Number: | GF1 |
CLC: | F119.9 |
Contents: | Introduction -- 1. Practices of Making Value, Evidence from Gallerists -- 2. An Historical-Institutional View on Making Value -- 3. The Organization and Geography of Making Value -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Making of, list of commercial gallerists. |