Artists in offices

Description:

"This ethnography, based on fieldwork and interviews carried out at the California Institute of the Arts in the 1980s, analyzes the day-to-day life of an organization devoted to work in the arts. It charts the rise and demise of a particular academic art "scene," an occupational utopian community that recruited its members by promising them an ideal work setting. Now available in paperback, it offers insights into the worlds of art and education, and how they interact in particular settings. The nature of career experience in the arts, in particular its temporal structure, makes these occupations particularly receptive to utopian thought. The occupational utopia that served as a recruitment myth for the particular organization under scrutiny is examined for what it reveals about the otherwise unexpressed impulses of the work world."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: American Arts,  Arts,  Arts and society,  California Institute of the Arts,  Study and teaching (Higher),  Art schools,  Arts, study and teaching,  Arts et société,  Arts américains,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Anthropology,  General,  Regional Studies,  Sociology,  Modern Arts

Places: United States

Times: 20th century