Artists’ Voices in Cultural Policy

Simone Wesner is Lecturer in Cultural Policy and Arts Management at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

“Encompassing seventy years and conducted over a span of twenty-one, her data presents an exceptional resource that pertains beyond her immediate field of cultural policy research and should be of interest to historians, political scientists, art historians, German and Eastern European Studies scholars, as well as transition researchers.” (Evelyn Preuss, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature STTCL, Vol. 44 (1), 2020)

• Part One.-1. Introduction: Understanding Artists.- 2. The Artist and the Artistic Myth.- 3. Memory.- 4. Identity.- Part Two.- 5. Inherited Certainties: Transitional Cultural Policies and Visual Artists.- 6. Artists’ Professionalization and Careers in the Cultural Policy Landscape.- 7. Conclusion: Artists, Policy and the Future of the Professional Class.