Competition or exhibition? The Olympic arts and cultural policy rhetoric
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12340342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Ingraham (0000-0001-9093-340X, North Carolina State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 256-271 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cultural Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1028-6632 • E-ISSN: 1477-2833 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10286632.2016.1153082 |
| OpenAlex | W2317515942 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Though they are widely forgotten today, the modern Olympic Games once offered competitive medals for art. This tradition, which lasted through the seven summer Games held from 1912 to 1948, found artists competing for gold much as athletes do now. These artists represented their nation in judged competitive events showcasing artistic works. In its initial form, the ‘pentathlon of the muses,’ as it was called, included competitive events in Architecture, Musical Composition, Sculpture, Painting, and Literature. This paper considers the history of these arts competitions and their eventual demise as a study in cultural policy, arguing that no understanding of cultural policy is sufficient unless it considers the rhetorical factors that contribute to its formation. Without abandoning the Foucauldian backbone of cultural-policy studies, this argument makes an interdisciplinary plea to open cultural policy studies to the field of rhetorical scholarship, which it has almost wholly neglected to date
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Competition (biology · Cultural policy · Elite · Exhibition · Literature · Musical · Plea · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Scholarship · Sculpture · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
The Claims of Culture
Cultural Policy
Olympic Cities
The Olympic Games and Cultural Policy
One hundred years of cultural programming within the Olympic Games (1912–2012)
Sport in the “city of culture”
Culture agonistes
Olympic Legacies in the IOC's ‘Celebrate Humanity’ Campaign
Bodily Arts
Rhetoric of Motives
Knowledge, Power and Politics
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |