The Influence of Political Engagement on Artistic Reputation. Self-Evaluations of Artists.

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Despite the study of political art by many scholars, an in-depth analysis of how artists
express themselves politically and assess their political expression as part of their artistic reputation is still missing. How do artists value their political action in view of their artistic reputation, and why? A promising theoretical entry to this question is Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory. We used his concept of field-specific symbolic capital in cultural production to study political expression by artists; findings are based on empirical research in the cities of Hamburg, Hanover, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. In previous publications of this multistage research project, we identified five artist types that are involved in urban political action in different ways—the autonomous artist, social artivist, political artist, political artivist and high status artist. In this stage, we assess their political behavior as a factor of symbolic capital. We found that autonomous artists reject political action as detrimental
to their symbolic capital. High status artists have such a high artistic position that they can ignore any possible damage to their reputation caused by their political activities. Social artivists believe that overt political action might be harmful for their symbolic capital, and we label their political artistic action as social art. Political artists declare that their artwork is political, which promotes their symbolic capital as long as their political expressions are restricted to their artwork and not seen as personal expressions. Political artivists do not draw a line between their artwork and personal political expression, as they understand both as reputation enhancing. We thus reject the negative correlation between artistic autonomy and political heteronomy in the art field as simplistic.
Translated title of the contributionDer Einfluss von politischem Engagement auf die künstlerische Reputation. Selbsteinschätzungen von Künstlern.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy
Volume9
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)29-58
Number of pages30
ISSN2701-8466
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Publication statusPublished - 01.08.2023

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