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Artists’ Voices in Cultural Policy

Careers, Myths and the Creative Profession after German Unification

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Authors:
  1. Simone Wesner

    1. Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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  • Offers a combined focus on professionalization, career development, and cultural policy within the field of cultural policy research
  • Addresses the lack of longitudinal research on artists’ careers in the cultural policy context
  • Acts as a counterweight to previously published literature on cultural labour in the creative industries

Part of the book series: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research (NDCPR)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Mapping Perceptions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Understanding Artists

      • Simone Wesner
      Pages 3-15

    3. The Artist and the Artistic Myth

      • Simone Wesner
      Pages 17-40

    4. Memory

      • Simone Wesner
      Pages 41-70

    5. Identity

      • Simone Wesner
      Pages 71-95

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 185-197
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About this book

This volume examines visual artists’ careers in the East German region of Saxony, as seen through the lens of cultural policy studies. The book discusses how myth binaries, memory layers and identity markers shaped artists professional lives in an interwoven and fluid approach following German unification, taking a fresh look at the intricacies of visual artists’ careers within the specifics of the cultural, social and political changes. It surveys artists’ professional practice and work under the new framework of the professional class, and discusses the implications for the profession of artists with special reference to visual artists. Simone Wesner looks beyond geographical and political contexts and provides the reader with a longitudinal narrative that produces a revised understanding of artists’ careers within the cultural policy context.  

Reviews

“Encompassing seventy years and conducted over a span of twenty-one, her data presents an exceptional resource that pertains beyond her immediate field of cultural policy research and should be of interest to historians, political scientists, art historians, German and Eastern European Studies scholars, as well as transition researchers.” (Evelyn Preuss, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature STTCL, Vol. 44 (1), 2020)

 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Simone Wesner

About the author

Simone Wesner is Lecturer in Cultural Policy and Arts Management at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

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