Rhetoric, Social Value and the Arts

1. Introduction
Nicola Mann

Part I. Policy

2. Who Sets the Agenda? Changing Attitudes Towards the Relevance of Small-Scale Visual Arts Organisations in the UK
Rachel Mader

3. From Social Inclusion to Audience Numbers: Art Museums in the New Public Management
Charlotte Bonham-Carter

part II. Theory

4. Rethinking the Social Turn: The Social Function of Art as Functionless and Anti-Social
Ana Bilbao Yarto

5. The Paradoxical Engagement of Contemporary Art with Activism and Protest
Tijen Tunalı

part III. Practice and Artistic Responses

6.
Arte de Conducta: On Tania Bruguera’s Tatlin’s Whisper Series

Andrés David Montenegro Rosero

7. PERCENT FOR GREEN: Creating Space as Consciousness
Alicia Grullón

part IV. Museums and Institutional Responses

8. Artists on the Gallery Payroll: A Case Study and a Corporate Turn
Lawrence Bradby, Judith Stewart

9. Collecting Social Things
Joey Orr

10. Conclusions
Charlotte Bonham-Carter

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Arts, Cultural Policy and Politics, Social Policy, Cultural Studies, Cultural Management, Sociology of Culture