Table of Contents

Part One: Introduction.- 1. The Capitalist Economy as a Precondition and Restraint of Modern and Contemporary Art Worlds.- Part Two: Contemporary Capitalist Economy and the Demands of Art’s Societal Utility and Responsibility.- 2. Culturalization of the Economy and the Artistic Qualities of Contemporary Capitalism.- 3. Neoliberal Marketization of Global Contemporary Visual Art Worlds: Changes in Valuations and the Scope of Local and Global Markets.- 4. Art, Capitalist Markets, and Society: Insights and Reflections on Contemporary Art.- 5. Art as a Means to Produce Societal Benefits and Social Innovations.- 6. A Plea for Responsible Art: Politics, the Market, Creation.- Part Three: Alternative and Critical Art Production and its Control.- 7. Artistic Critique on Capitalism as a Practical and Theoretical Problem.- 8.  De-Aestheticization and the Dialectics of the Aesthetic and Anti-Aesthetic in Contemporary Art.- 9. Artivism and the Spiritof Avant-Garde Art.- 10. Dirty Pictures. Scandal and Censorship in Contemporary Art.- Part Four: Afterword.- 11. Manifestations and Conditions of Art. 

About the Author

Victoria D. Alexander is Senior Lecturer, Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Samuli Hägg is Lecturer, Finnish and Literature, University of Eastern Finland.

Simo Häyrynen is Adjunct Professor of Cultural Policy, University of Eastern Finland.

Erkki Sevänen is Professor of Literature, University of Eastern Finland and Adjunct Professor of Aesthetics, University of Helsinki, Finland.