Keyword: “Art market”

Cov­er: Work­ing artists aspect of arts and labour

This essay for the 2014 Seoul Art Space, Seoul Foun­da­tion for Arts and Cul­ture Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium briefly cov­ers UK arts poli­cies for sup­port to artists’ devel­op­ment, com­ments on their impact on artists’ social and eco­nom­ic sta­tus and sug­gests a rethink­ing of the artists’ intrin­sic role in soci­ety as a vital part of secur­ing and sus­tain­ing con­tem­po­rary visu­al arts in the future.

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Annabel Dover: Too Many Artists Event

Draw­ing togeth­er com­par­a­tive datasets and asso­ci­at­ed com­men­tary, this paper giv­en in 2011 is an explo­ration of the con­cept of ​‘too many artists’ with­in dis­cus­sion of the under­ly­ing premise of state inter­ven­tions into the arts and dif­fer­ing pol­i­cy per­cep­tions over time of the artist’s role in society.

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