Contemporary art's audiences: specialist accreditation and the myth of inclusion
Abstract: While postmodernist claims for contemporary art's pluralism, inclusive character and interpenetration with everyday cultures proliferate, little attention is paid to the actual practices, discourses and realities of the art world, its institutions and the interest groups that are involved. Based on findings of the author's recent ethnographic research on a leading contemporary art gallery in Britain and through an analysis of art's audiences as an insider construct, this article argues that a distinction exists between informed and uninformed audiences which is directly associated with two competing types of cultural recognition. These are specialist accreditation and public recognition; the domination of the former in their struggle is presented as decisive in art's socio-cultural legitimization and as manifest in the content and limited range of the audience as an insider discourse
- Location
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- Extent
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Online-Ressource
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: European Journal of Cultural Studies ; 10 (2007) 2 ; 203-223
- Classification
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Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (where)
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Mannheim
- (when)
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2007
- Creator
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Sifakakis, Spyros
- DOI
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10.1177/1367549407075908
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-227182
- Rights
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Last update
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25.03.2025, 1:51 PM CET
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Associated
- Sifakakis, Spyros
Time of origin
- 2007
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