Author: Zolberg, Vera L.

Publication Year: 1982

Media Type: Book

Summary:

Abstract:

Patronage is only one of the many institutions that foster creation, reward artists, and permit or promote performance and display of their works. It has been and remains the most prestigious of the support structures, so prestigious, in fact, that its name is applied to forms of cultural support having little in common with what it connotes. In this chapter I will explore patronage, its relationship to other support systems, and their probable impact, separately and together, on the encouragement - as well as the limitation - of the arts.

Support systems, and their effects on the kinds of art produced, recognized as art, rewarded, and disseminated, have been documented by scholars working in a variety of disciplines (Hauser, 1951; Gombrich, 1972; Meiss, 1951, Trevor-Roper, 1976), providing a basis for sociological analysis. Particularly within the field of the production of culture, research on the processes by which culture is created, creators rewarded, their output selected, by what gatekeepers, and how their works are diffused and received by publics, has resulted in clarification of and insight into culture - society relationships (Peterson, 1976). Following their lead, this chapter surveys change from individual patronage to newer patterns and sources of subsidy and financing of the arts, with particular, though not exclusive, attention to the . (p. 251-268)

CONTENTS
Introduction.
Patronage and Market: interpretations.
Artist and public.
Changing patterns of dominance.
Monopolistic versus Pluralistic patronage.
Conclusions.

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Categories: Fundraising