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Art as Enterprise : Social and Economic Engagement in Contemporary Art, Paperback / softback Book

Art as Enterprise : Social and Economic Engagement in Contemporary Art Paperback / softback

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Art is produced, circulated, consumed and disseminated within an economic system - it depends on money for its creation, for the livelihood of its makers, and for its distribution.

In this sense, art can be understood as an enterprising activity.

However, profit-making is rarely the primary goal of artists, and indeed the entanglement of art with enterprise generates significant aesthetic, conceptual, philosophical and ethical challenges for contemporary art practice.

Social enterprise has emerged from this complex terrain with the promise of an alternative model of economic organisation in the arts.

Grace McQuilten and Anthony White argue that artists can, and have, engaged critically in the commercial market, by way of this model.

Art as Enterprise brings a fresh perspective to the debate about the roles of contemporary art in consumer capitalist society.

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