Art and the Challenge of Markets Volume 2

Part 1. Introduction

1. Capitalist Economy as a Precondition and Restraint of Modern and Contemporary Art Worlds
Erkki Sevänen

Part 2. Contemporary Capitalist Economy and the Demands of Art’s Societal Utility and Responsibility

2. Culturalization of the Economy and the Artistic Qualities of Contemporary Capitalism
Juhana Venäläinen

3. Neoliberal Marketization of Global Contemporary Visual Art Worlds: Changes in Valuations and the Scope of Local and Global Markets
Kangsan Lee

4. Art, Capitalist Markets, and Society: Insights and Reflections on Contemporary Art
Ilaria Riccioni

5. Art as a Means to Produce Social Benefits and Social Innovations
Katarzyna Niziołek

6. A Plea for Responsible Art: Politics, the Market, Creation
Antoine Hennion

Part 3. Alternative and Critical Art Production and Its Control

7. Artistic Critique on Capitalism as a Practical and Theoretical Problem
Dan Eugen Ratiu

8. De-aestheticization and the Dialectics of the Aesthetic and Anti-aesthetic in Contemporary Art
Gerard Vilar

9. Artivism and the Spirit of Avant-Garde Art
Dagmar Danko

10. Dirty Pictures: Scandal and Censorship in Contemporary Art
Anne E. Bowler

Part 4. Afterword

11. Manifestations and Conditions of Art
Aleš Erjavec

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Social Theory, Globalization, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Arts