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Artangel and Financing British Art - Adapting to Social and Economic Change (Hardcover)
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Artangel and Financing British Art - Adapting to Social and Economic Change (Hardcover)
Series: British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700
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The Artangel Trust has been credited with providing artists with
all the money and logistics they need to create one-off dream
projects. An independent art commissioning agency based in London,
it has operated since 1985 and is responsible for producing some of
the most striking ephemeral and site-specific artworks of the last
decades, from Rachel Whiteread's House to Jeremy Deller's The
Battle of Orgreave. Artangel's existence spans three decades, which
now form a coherent whole in terms of both art historical and
political periodisation. It was launched as a reaction to the cuts
in funding for the visual arts introduced by the Thatcher
government in 1979 and has since adapted in a distinctive way to
changing cultural policies. Its mixed economic model, the recourse
to public, private and corporate funds, is the result of the more
general hybridisation of funding encouraged by successive
governments since the 1980s and offers a contemporary case study on
broader questions concerning the specificities of British art
patronage. This book aims to demonstrate that the singular way its
directors have responded to the vagaries of public funding and
harnessed new national attitudes to philanthropy has created a
sustainable independent model, but also that it has been reflected
more formally, in their approach to site. The locational art
produced by the agency has indeed mirrored new distinctions between
public and private spaces, it has reflected the social and economic
changes the country has gone through and accompanied the new
cultural geographies shaping London and the United Kingdom. Looking
into whether their funding model might have had a formal incidence
on the art they helped produce and on its relation to notions of
publicness and privacy, the study of Artangel gives a fresh insight
into new trends in British site-specific art.
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