Recent Writing on Interculturalism

Cummings, Scott T.; Falassi, Alessandro

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“…Firstly, just like in many other western countries (e.g. Cummings and Schuster, 1989), the 'space of possibles' for Flemish grant-applying artists has evolved from a model that sought to support both artistic talent and struggling artists, to a model that rejects social welfare considerations and legitimates subsidies based on excellence, and economic and societal accountability, as evidenced by discourse in the newsletters distributed to visual artists by the committee and the legal art decrees which we discuss in-depth elsewhere (Peters and Roose, 2022). While between 1965 and 1992 the Flemish visual art committee distributed small grants both to reputed and struggling artists, from 1992 onwards it granted 'more financial resources for fewer but high-quality artists' (Gielen, 2002: 236 -translated from Dutch; also see Peters and Roose, 2022, for a more detailed historical account of shifts in grant sizes).…”

Section: Developments In the Art Field Cultural Policy And Applicants...mentioning

confidence: 96%

The Grant Proposal as a Genre. A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of Visual Artists and their Legitimations for Government Grants in Flanders, 1965–2015

Peters

Roose

2022

Cultural Sociology

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Do artists’ justificatory strategies to obtain government grants reflect expectations from the funding body, or are they predominantly tied to artists’ field positions? Using Multiple Correspondence Analysis on Flemish (Belgium) visual artists’ grant proposals spanning 51 years (1965–2015, n = 494), we find that, with some notable exceptions, field positions and artists’ justifications for obtaining subsidies are only marginally related. Instead, strategies mainly reflect the period they are written in, showing the influence of both cultural policy and the art field. These findings support Bourdieu’s idea that there is no mechanical homology between positions and position-takings, but that the ‘space of possibles’ in which agents express themselves, strongly bears on this relationship. Furthermore, our study suggests that strategic considerations turn the grant proposal into a genre.

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Section: Developments In the Art Field Cultural Policy And Applicants...mentioning

confidence: 96%