Cameron M Weber May 8 2015 Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art with Emphasis on the United States of America Note title of dissertation Leonard Welsted 1724 Dissertation is intended to be a contribution and not a last word ID: 165459
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Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art with Emphasis on the United States of America
Cameron M. WeberMay 8, 2015Slide2
Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art with Emphasis on the United States of America
Note title of dissertation. (Leonard Welsted 1724)Dissertation is intended to be a contribution and not a last word.
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Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art
with Emphasis on the United States of America
What are my original contributions and how is my work a cohesive whole.
The main research question, “what are the relationships between art, the individual, society and the state?”
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Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art with Emphasis on the United States of America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--fSOJzGJnM
Dimitri Shostakovich on
the cover of
Time
, July 20, 1942.
His seventh symphony,
Leningrad
,
debuts March 5, 1942 during the
Siege of Leningrad.
The Cairo Conference of the “Big Three”
allies meets November 1943.
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Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art
with Emphasis on the United States of America
We
use a
periodization of the arts
to help tie together the three main chapters of the dissertation.
This historical approach allows us to observe cumulative causation among the main analytical categories of the dissertation.
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Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art
with Emphasis on the United States of AmericaMain Chapters
The “Value Paradox” in Art Economics: Discourse on a Research Program
Original contribution is that we survey the literature and find a shared
pre-analytical vision
(both implicit and explicit) among the practitioners of art economics.
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Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art
with Emphasis on the United States of America
Art
as an economic good contains value beyond exchange-value.
Orthodox
(post-marginal revolution) economics focuses on exchange-value alone.
This
creates a “value paradox” for those practicing art economics.
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Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art
with Emphasis on the United States of AmericaMain Chapters
2) The Role of Museums in Utility-Enhancing Consumption
Original contributions include,
A model on how museums can encourage preference-creation for experience goods (art) by reducing the cost of consuming the unknown.
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The Role of Museums in Utility-Enhancing Consumption
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Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art
with Emphasis on the United States of America
The
Role of Museums in Utility-Enhancing Consumption
Contributions include (cont.):
A
way for measuring the “top” museums in the United States
and measuring
how these museums prioritize education as mandated by their tax-free
status.
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Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art
with Emphasis on the United States of America
The
Role of Museums in Utility-Enhancing
Consumption
Further research introduced in the chapter:
Evaluate spending priorities of smaller more local museums as probably more likely to create social value (cohesion of time and place)
Compare asset (art) acquisitions versus current generation spending
Study museum revenues relative to business-cycle to see if art is indeed “for the rich.”
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Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art
with Emphasis on the United States of AmericaMain Chapters
3) Political Economy of New Deal Art (1933-1943) as Seen Through the Lens of State Theory
Original contributions include,
A model assigning self-interest to the behavior of the state,
Applying this model to state-funded art production, and
Finding that if the art calls for a larger discretionary role for the
state in society we determine that this is “art statism.”
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Political
Economy of New Deal Art (1933-1943) as Seen
Through
the Lens of State
Theory
Fichte Triangle Illustrating Historical “Progress” and State Power
From discussion in Wagner,
Fiscal Sociology
(2007),
additions
and diagram by
author.
Dichotomy and Continuum between Order
and Organization
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Duncan, “Ingres’s
Vow of Louis XIII
and
the Politics of the Restoration,”
Art
and Architecture in the Service of Politics
(1980).
Louis XIII crowned 1610.
Charles X crowned in 1822.
Ingres’s painting from 1824,
courtesy
of Louvre
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Political Economy of New Deal Art (1933-1943) as Seen
Through the Lens of State TheoryOriginal contributions (cont.):
A model illustrating the relationship between the individual and society, specifically,
Shared precognitive aesthetics (following Hume and Kant),
Preference creation in society, and
Preference revelation in exchange.
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Political Economy of New Deal Art (1933-1943) as Seen
Through the Lens of State TheoryOriginal contributions (cont.):
A case study of New Deal art produced from several archival sources, finding that some of the content of this art was,
Changed perhaps to prevent the viewer (the median voter) from questioning the legitimacy of the content, and
Produced in order to appeal to base emotions (fear) in order to create preferences for more discretionary state programs
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Political Economy of New Deal Art (1933-1943) as Seen
Through the Lens of State Theory
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Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art with Emphasis on the United States of America
Art can be used in service of a coercive state, but it doesn’t have to be, and art-statism is not necessarily always a bad thing.
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“Propaganda is the means by which charismatic leadership, circumventing intermediary social and political institutions like parliaments, parties and interest groups, gains direct hold upon the masses.”
Schivelbusch
,
Three New Deals
(2006) Slide22
Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art with Emphasis on the United States of America
Das Adam Smith Problem“Recently, however, there has been talk among experts on federalism that the federation as a form of government may be in decline and that confederations are again on the rise. This paradigm shift may stem from the breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, troubles in the Russian Federation, the spread of secessionist movements, and the coming together of Europe into a confederation.”
Eland,
Partitioning for Peace: An Exit Strategy for Iraq
(2009)Slide23
Dissertation Concerning a Political Economy of Art with Emphasis on the United States of America
“More generally, the decline of statism and the rise of globalization – as well as the concomitant increase in regionalization – have led to a trend toward creating confederational forms of governance
.”
Eland,
Partitioning for Peace: An Exit Strategy for Iraq
(2009)