1st Edition

Arts and Business Building a Common Ground for Understanding Society

Edited By Elena Raviola, Peter Zackariasson Copyright 2017
258 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Arts and Business aims at bringing arts and business scholars together in a dialogue about a number of key topics that today form different understandings in the two disciplines. Arts and business are, many times, positioned as opposites. Where one is providing symbolic and aesthetic immersion, the other is creating goods for a market and markets for a good. They often deal and struggle with... Read more

Section 1: The Arts and Business: Contemporary and Historical Dialogues

1. Aesthetics of Collective Action: Φ and Π in a Twisted Impromptu on Art and Research by Operational Aesthetics

Pierre Guillet de Monthoux and Philippe Mairesse

2. The Art and Business of ‘Being Critical’

Daniel Ericsson and Magnus Eriksson

3. Media Art in the Context of Art, Science and the Market: A Historical Perspective

Claudia Schnugg and Victoria Vesna

Section 2: Organizing Collaboration

4. To The Manger! Collaboration in the Age of Access

Kent Hansen and Anke Strauß

5. Embedding the Corporate Story through Performance

Tracy Harwood and Sophy Smith

6. Understanding Sponsorship Relationships

Janina Panizza and David Stewart

Section 3: Performing and Agreeing on Values

7. A Short Dialogue on the Meaning of Performance

Emilie Reinhold and Kahena Sanaâ

8. Evaluating Value: Stolen, Disappearing and Pseudonymous Art

Chloe Preece and Aleksandra Bida

9. Community Arts: On the Precarious Compromise between the Inspirational and the Civic Worlds

Ester Barinaga

10. Re-casting Legitimacy: Validation and Criticality as Contemporary Art Joins Cultural Business

Ravi Dar and Pamela Schutz Nybacka

Section 4: Leadership and Power

11. Leadership in Art and Business

Katja Lindqvist

12. Portraits of the Artist as Cultural Entrepreneur

Kerry McCall and Maeve Houlihan

13. The Conundrum of Power: Sintering Structural and Relational Perspectives in Business and Arts Organizations

Yuliya Shymko and Alison Minkus

14. La Fileuse de Reims, a Place Where Artists can Work: A Dialogue between the Founder and One of the Residents

Elen Riot and Pauline Quantin

Section 5: Learning, Knowledge and Thinking

15. Valuing the Other: Exposing Undergraduates to the Art of Business and the Business of Arts

Andrew Power and Michael MacDonnell

16. Management: Stepping Back Through Arts

Dorina Coste, Isabelle Né and Marianella Fornerino

17. The Rag Rug: Weaving Together Artistic and Business Patterns of Thinking

Nina Bozic Yams and Elisabeth Helldorff

Biography

Elena Raviola is Associate Professor at the School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, Sweden and works also at the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Peter Zackariasson is an Associate Professor in Marketing at the School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, Sweden.