Audiences and the Arts: Communication Perspectives (The Hampton Press Communication Series)

What do we mean when we talk about the Arts? Culture? Communiction? Audience? The authors in this book question the usual assumptions about these concepts and their relationships and offer a diversity of perspectives in the process. Among the highlights of the book are arguments for new ways of thinking about arts and cultural policy, critiques of current practices in arts marketing, reflections on the potential of museums as spaces for meaning-making and discussions of the importance of the arts for personal identity and expression