Capital Culture : A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art.

Intro -- Contents -- Rich and Famous Wallpaper -- Intersection -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Where Was I/See the Sights -- Introduction -- Thoughts to Begin -- Nationalism and the Modernist Legacy: Dialogues with Innis -- Intersection -- Aesthetics and Politics in the Age of Global Markets -- Monopolies of Censorship: A Postmodern Footnote to Innis -- Postmodernism, Ethics, and Aesthetics in the Age of Global Markets -- The Old Age of Art and Money -- Art Money Madness: With Origins in Mind -- Marketing Culture and the Policies of Value -- Ideas without Work/Work without Ideas: Reflections on Work, Value, and the Volk -- The Cost of the Sublime: The Voice of Fire Controversy -- Colville and Patton: Two Paradigms of Value -- Whiffs of Balsam, Pine and Spruce": Art Museums and the Production of a "Canadian" Aesthetic -- Please Deposit Fifty Cents and Take Card from Slot Below -- Culture and the State -- Policying Culture: Canada, State Rationality, and the Governmentalization of Communication -- Le trésor de la langue: Visual Arts and State Policy in Québec -- Speculation (Blue Chip, Red Dot) -- Technology, Globalization, and Cultural Identity -- Learning the New Information Order -- This Is Your Messiah Speaking -- The Crisis of Naming in Canadian Film -- Thoughts to Close -- The Shape of Time and the Value of Art -- Certified Art Ad Series -- Contributors -- Three Works -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- ... It's Still Privileged Art -- Intersection.

The status of art has undergone a tremendous shift in the last twenty years. While the value of a work of art once came from a dynamic but fundamentally stable consensus regarding its social and aesthetic status within its culture, this has increasingly been replaced by a more controversial role for art as a high-priced commodity in international markets - we live in a world where French-owned Van Goghs are sold in London to the Japanese for tens of millions of American dollars. In Capital Culture leading cultural critics, art theorists and artists re-examine the nature of artistic value, bringing historical and critical perspectives to bear on contemporary controversies surrounding national identity, political economy, and government policy.

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