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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Main Authors: Fasche, Melanie
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54030-6
Summary: 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.