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Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged, by Hannah Wohl, University of Chicago Press. 2021

Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged, by Hannah Wohl, University of... The Journal of ar Ts ManageMenT , ,lwa and socie Ty Book Review Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged, by Hannah w ohl, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2021, 232 pp., $30, iSBN: 9780226784694 How are we to understand value in contemporary art when many of the art works we are confronted with today are so unlike art as it was understood before 1914: they are ugly or intentionally ephemeral or difficult to show or they seem illegible or quotidian? Why are such works worth exhibiting? Why is there a market for them? In Bound by Creativity, Hannah Wohl argues that judgments about contemporary art are made in reference to what she terms an artist’s creative vision – that is, a coherent and compelling understanding of what an artist is trying to explore in their body of work. A creative vision is a theme that an artist follows, guided by their own interests, talents, learned capacities, and reflections on past work, and influenced by interpretations and shaping on the part of dealers, curators, critics, collectors, and other artists. Wohl is working here in the tradition of Northwestern University sociologists Howard Becker and Gary Alan Fine, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Arts Management Law and Society Taylor & Francis

Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged, by Hannah Wohl, University of Chicago Press. 2021

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Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged, by Hannah Wohl, University of Chicago Press. 2021

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The Journal of ar Ts ManageMenT , ,lwa and socie Ty Book Review Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged, by Hannah w ohl, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2021, 232 pp., $30, iSBN: 9780226784694 How are we to understand value in contemporary art when many of the art works we are confronted with today are so unlike art as it was understood before 1914: they are ugly or intentionally ephemeral or difficult to show or they seem illegible or quotidian? Why are such...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
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1930-7799
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1063-2921
DOI
10.1080/10632921.2022.2134953
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The Journal of ar Ts ManageMenT , ,lwa and socie Ty Book Review Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged, by Hannah w ohl, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2021, 232 pp., $30, iSBN: 9780226784694 How are we to understand value in contemporary art when many of the art works we are confronted with today are so unlike art as it was understood before 1914: they are ugly or intentionally ephemeral or difficult to show or they seem illegible or quotidian? Why are such works worth exhibiting? Why is there a market for them? In Bound by Creativity, Hannah Wohl argues that judgments about contemporary art are made in reference to what she terms an artist’s creative vision – that is, a coherent and compelling understanding of what an artist is trying to explore in their body of work. A creative vision is a theme that an artist follows, guided by their own interests, talents, learned capacities, and reflections on past work, and influenced by interpretations and shaping on the part of dealers, curators, critics, collectors, and other artists. Wohl is working here in the tradition of Northwestern University sociologists Howard Becker and Gary Alan Fine,

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The Journal of Arts Management Law and Society – Taylor & Francis

Published: May 4, 2023

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