Finding Its Own Way: The Empowerment System of Contemporary Artists' Legitimacy in China
Jinzhi Qin
Art Market Studies
About this Item
- Title
- Finding Its Own Way: The Empowerment System of Contemporary Artists' Legitimacy in China
- Contributor Names
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Qin, Jinzhi (Author)
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Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. Art Market Studies (Degree granting institution)
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Melton, Paul (Thesis advisor)
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Degen, Natasha (Thesis advisor)
- Date
- 2021
- Degree Information
- M.A. Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York 2021.
- Department: Art Market Studies.
- Advisors: Melton, Paul; Degen, Natasha.
- Abstract
- The legitimacy of an artist's identity requires the empowerment of social recognition, which is achieved through the capital transaction and transformation within the two empowerment paths within the artworld: non-market empowerment path (autonomous) and market empowerment path (heteronomous). Because the original narrative of Chinese contemporary art was the ideology from "The Occident" countries, the non-market empowerment path in China lacks empowerment for contemporary Chinese artists, as the empowerment of it is a top-down, one-way empowerment process reflecting the will of the authorities. As a complement of the non-market empowerment path, the market empowerment path provides a valuable empowerment path and development space for Chinese contemporary artists as its empowerment is multi-directional and mutual. However, the market empowerment path also has the practical problem of relying too much on the Western art market for empowerment. In this case, galleries, the only empowering entities in the Chinese art market that directly establish business relationships with artists, are actively seeking ways to change this situation through innovation in business models. Among them, the Hive Center for Contemporary Art in the 798 Art District is a good example. Transforming from a non-profit private art museum, the Hive Center insists on investing in and supporting Chinese emerging contemporary artists and combines academic (autonomous) ways and market-oriented (heteronomous) ways to empower artists.
- Subject
- Feng chao dang dai yi shu zhong xin (Beijing, China)
- China
- Art, Chinese
- Artists
- Art--Marketing
- Art museums
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- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: etd_000883
- pqdiss: 28963658
- ISBN: 9798790646072
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Citation
Qin, J. (2021). Finding Its Own Way: The Empowerment System of Contemporary Artists' Legitimacy in China [Master's thesis, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York]. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/4015
Qin, Jinzhi. Finding Its Own Way: The Empowerment System of Contemporary Artists' Legitimacy in China. 2021. Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Master's thesis. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/4015
Qin, Jinzhi. "Finding Its Own Way: The Empowerment System of Contemporary Artists' Legitimacy in China." Master's thesis, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, 2021. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/4015