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Alison Gerber, “The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers” (Stanford UP, 2017)

2018/1/19
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Is making art a job? This question is central to The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers )(Stanford University Press, 2017), the new book by Alison Gerber), a postdoctoral fellow) in the Department of Sociology at Lund University. The book explores the working lives of artists by thinking through the idea of value in their work. At the heart of this exploration are four accounts of being an artist; four accounts of value; and four accounts of the occupation. These four accounts—pecuniary, credentialising, vocational, and relational—connect and conflict with each other to explain the place of both art and the artist in contemporary society. Using rich and detailed interview and ethnographic data, the book is essential reading for its contribution to contemporary sociology of culture and its insights into the art world.

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