Project

Aesthetic regimes, social characteristics of visual artists, and cultural consecration: A diachronic sociological analysis of artists’ subsidies between 1965 and 1999 in Flanders

Code
01J09915
Duration
01 September 2015 → 30 June 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Applied sociology
    • Policy and administration
    • Social psychology
    • Social stratification
    • Social theory and sociological methods
    • Sociology of life course, family and health
    • Other sociology
    • Other sociology
    • Other anthropology
Keywords
professionalization of art internationalization of art cultural production visual artists cultural policy aesthetic regimes art cultural consecration art subsidies
 
Project description

We offer a historical-sociological analysis that looks into how characteristics of art and artists are associated with receiving state support. Using visual artists’ applications for subsidies between 1965 and 1999 we can relate social characteristics of artists and aesthetic dimensions of their work to subsidies and frame these relationships historically in the political and artistic context.