20361 - ARTS AND CULTURE - PREPARATORY COURSE

The module is aimed at providing students with a general knowledge about the issues that they will encounter all along the two-years course. In fact, students with poor or defective basics in economics, managerial sciences and intellectual property law will have the opportunity to become familiar with this topic. Without the ambition of being exhaustive, the main issues in the economics, policy and management of the arts and culture will arise from reading and discussion of some relevant authors and scholars in the sector.

• Art and economics. The relationship between art and economics is explored beginning from the different perception of value in their own remits.
• Cultural consumption. The phenomenon of cultural consumption is one the remarkable evolution of the markets in both Westerns and non-Western societies in the post-fordist model of development
• Cultural markets and industries. Production and supply of cultural goods and services follow its own paths of development and uncommon rules.
• Cultural policies compared. Nations, regions and cities operate with different means, institutions and scope in delivering cultural policy.
• Managing cultural organisations. The art of management is applied with ambiguous results to the management of art organisations and art people

Some articles and papers will be distributed at the beginning of the module and slides of the lessons will be also available to students.