The end of 'art' and the assent of the creative industries: is this a win-win result?
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2010
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Caust, J.
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Gurd, B.
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Conference paper
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Proceedings of the 24th annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management conference (ANZAM 2010), 2010 / Gurd, B. (ed./s)
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24th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2010) (8 Dec 2010 - 10 Dec 2010 : Adelaide, South Australia)
Abstract
Over the past decade the influence of the market paradigm has been keenly felt in many different sectors and particularly in the arts. Ways of administering and framing the arts have been the subject of different approaches historically, largely influenced by a government’s understanding of its role at a macro level. The Australian Federal model for arts funding in the late sixties and seventies for instance was influenced by the Keynesian model of market protection and benign arm’s length intervention. In more recent times the role of government in Australia in relation to the arts, has been framed by a neo-conservative approach where the arts are seen as just another player in the economy.In this paradigm ‘economy’ and ‘society’ have been conflated as meaning the same. As an out come the arts were framed as part of the economy and funded by government to become successful‘businesses’. Under both major political parties the development of the ‘creative industries’ model in particular, has been seen as a way forward for the arts. This paper explores the arguments around the subsuming of the arts into the creative industries model to determine the benefits or otherwise for thearts of this approach.