Making Value And Career Building In The Creative Economy: Evidence From Contemporary Visual Art (springerbriefs In Geography)

This work offers a nuanced perspective based on empirical evidence of the role of talent and creativity for economic growth, prosperity, social and spatial inequality, and precarity in creative cities by arguing that creativity and talent need to be valued and eventually rewarded to achieve sufficient conditions for individual economic success. Shedding light on the recent momentum of a growing convergence of cultural and economic spheres in post‐industrial societies by building on a case study of contemporary visual art from interviews with commercial gallerists. Written from an economic geography and historical-institutional perspective while leveraging the analytic strength of the established repertoire of other social science disciplines this book will provide a fascinating read for economic geographers and other social scientists researching the creative and knowledge economy as well as arts professionals aiming to better understand the process of making value of contemporary visual art. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Prologue....Pages 1-3 Introduction....Pages 5-14 Practices of Making Value—Evidence from Gallerists....Pages 15-26 A Historical-Institutional View on Making Value....Pages 27-41 The Organization and Geography of Making Value....Pages 43-55 Conclusion....Pages 57-61 Epilogue....Pages 63-65 Making Of....Pages 67-75 Back Matter....Pages 77-77