Evaluating artistic work
Balancing competing perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2165693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Harrison (0000-0001-8769-5615, a Deakin Business School , Deakin University , Melbourne, Australia), Paul J Harrison (0000-0002-6719-1126, Deakin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 265-274 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Consumption Markets & Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1025-3866 • E-ISSN: 1477-223X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10253860903063279 |
| OpenAlex | W2083492597 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 32 |
The artist is frequently uncertain, when he or she begins to create a work, how the completed work will look or sound. However, the corporate business model, which is premised on a rational and instrumental worldview, suggests that in a market environment, art should be evaluated objectively, based on clearly stated and measurable objectives – often prior to that work being commenced. This paper explores the difficulties that art has in fitting into a corporatist worldview. First, the paper examines the historical materialization of the corporate model, and how it has infiltrated non‐profit arts. Second, the paper investigates the likely reasons as to why instrumental rationality and managerialism have been embraced so enthusiastically by bureaucrats, arts marketers and funders. And third, the paper suggests a research approach by which artists, managers and audiences can evaluate art within a framework that is sympathetic to the art and the artist
Aesthetics · Art · Art market · Business · Economics · Management · Managerialism · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Profit (economics · Public relations · Rationality · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Work (physics · Art History and Market Analysis · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Marketing
Implicit Bias
Distinction
Art, Work and Art Work
Culture and Consumption
When choice is demotivating
Distinction
Aesthetic Products and Aesthetic Consumption
For art's sake! Artistic and economic logics in creative production
Free to Choose
The Psychology of Art Appreciation
Preference Pollution, Reasons, and Other Murky Motivations
The unbearable automaticity of being
The Aesthetic Point of View
Art and value
River Magic
Who is the Celebrity Endorser? Cultural Foundations of the Endorsement Process
Concerning the Sciences, the Arts
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |