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Contemporary art's audiences: specialist accreditation and the myth of inclusion
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Abstract While postmodernist claims for contemporary art's pluralism, inclusive character and interpenetration with everyday cultures proliferate, little attention is paid to the actual practices, discourses and realities of the art world, its institutions and the interest groups that are involved. Based on ... mehr
While postmodernist claims for contemporary art's pluralism, inclusive character and interpenetration with everyday cultures proliferate, little attention is paid to the actual practices, discourses and realities of the art world, its institutions and the interest groups that are involved. Based on findings of the author's recent ethnographic research on a leading contemporary art gallery in Britain and through an analysis of art's audiences as an insider construct, this article argues that a distinction exists between informed and uninformed audiences which is directly associated with two competing types of cultural recognition. These are specialist accreditation and public recognition; the domination of the former in their struggle is presented as decisive in art's socio-cultural legitimization and as manifest in the content and limited range of the audience as an insider discourse.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Kunstkritik; Rezeption; Kunst; soziale Anerkennung; Diskurs; Publikum; Großbritannien; Experte; Postmoderne; Laie; Gegenwart
Klassifikation
Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
art galleries; audiences; contemporary art; discourse; institutionalized artistic production; legitimacy; postmodernism; public recognition; specialist accreditation;
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2007
Seitenangabe
S. 203-223
Zeitschriftentitel
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 10 (2007) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549407075908
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)