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BL
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642458
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Forkert, Kirsten
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Artistic lives : : a study of creativity in two European cities /\ by Kirsten Forkert
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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9781409450016
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9781409450009
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1409450007
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9781472403834
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Capitalism and the figure of the artist -- The creative subject and the state -- The loss of space and time for creative activities in London -- Shortened careers and pressures for instant success -- Berlin: an economy based on the marketing of creativity -- Does Berlin present an alternative model for cultural production?
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Artistic Lives challenges recent policy discourses that celebrate the ability of cultural producers to create something from nothing, and, more generally, the myth of creativity as an individual phenomenon, divorced from social context. Presenting rich interview material with artists and arts professionals in London and Berlin, together with ethnographic descriptions, Artistic Lives engages with debates surrounding Post-Fordism, gentrification and the nature of authorship, to raise challenging questions about the function of culture and the role of cultural producers within contemporary capita
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Artists-- Europe-- Social conditions
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Artists-- Europe-- Economic conditions
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)-- Social aspects
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)-- Economic aspects
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Arts-- Economic aspects-- Europe
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Sociology, Urban-- Europe
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| Dewey Classification
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709.421
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NX542.F684 2013eb
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Ohio Library and Information Network
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