Review of the book "ARTISTS AND CREATORS. SOCIAL, ARTISTIC, AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS". Authors: Stella Kaczmarek and Joanna Posłuszna. Transkript Publishing House, Krakow 2021
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B. Glinkowska-Krauze,
Dr Hab (Economics), Professor UŁ,
ORCID 0000-0002-6915-3297,
e-mail: beata.glinkowska@uni.lodz.pl,
The University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
Review of the book
"ARTISTS AND CREATORS. SOCIAL, ARTISTIC, AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS".
Authors: Stella Kaczmarek and Joanna Posłuszna.
Transkript Publishing House, Krakow 2021
The book Artists and Creators. Social, Artistic, and
Economic Aspects by S. Kaczmarek and J. Posłuszna
has 336 pages and consists of an introduction to the
subject, twelve chapters, a conclusion, and a
bibliography. The subject matter taken up in the study is
important from the social, economic, and national points
of view, as national identity. A democratic society wants
to express its emotions, feelings, and feelings through
art, manifested in various ways: theatre, film, sketches,
drawings, images, words, music, and gestures…
A society in crisis wants comfort, hope, and optimism –
expressed through art, which gives a break from the
difficult reality. Art is widely accepted and needed, and
artists are a kind of "entrepreneurs" analyzing the
market and human needs to reflect reality in the best
possible way and be able to earn "their fate". The
monograph deals not only with this aspect but also with
the aspects of culture management, financing culture,
the financial and economic situation of artists in Poland,
and many very important problems, which makes it
comprehensive and widely developed.
According to the act of practicing the profession of
an artist, artistic creation is a source of strength and
standards of social ties based on a common cultural
tradition. Culture, and thus artists and creators, are a
national brand that allows you to compete with other
countries. That is why it is so important to promote and
support creators and artists – also in Poland.
In the last 20 years, new functions and roles have
appeared for artists and creators, which have set trends
and changes in their functioning in the labor market.
They were e.g. transformation and globalization. Artists
are no longer only active in the public sector, but also
the private and non-governmental sectors. In addition,
they are increasingly finding themselves in the creative
sector. That is why such an important part of the book is
a discussion of the economic aspects of the artist's
function in modern times.
The thematic value of individual chapters - defined
as "(...) Social, artistic, and economic aspects"
(referring to artists and creators) has been elaborated
exhaustively. It is a broad look at many important issues
in the field of culture. It should also be realized that the
subject matter taken up by the authors – being very
broad – is subject to relatively "permanent" regulations
in the field of culture and art, which in the situation of a
turbulent environment makes it simply "inappropriate".
In these circumstances, elevating this topic to the rank
of a scientific study is methodologically difficult, but the
authors coped with this problem perfectly. Chapters and
subchapters – in most cases – have a properly defined
character, referring to specific research problems. There
are some disproportions between the chapters, which are
justified by the different volumes of the analyzed
content.
And so, in Chapter 1 entitled Importance of
culture, the content concerning the definition of the
concept of culture, the meaning and role of cultural
education, contemporary problems of culture, and the
phenomenon of cultural exclusion have been well
developed. The chapter is supported by a thorough
analysis of the literature on the subject and ends with
a logical, concise summary. The authors support
M. Golka's opinion that multiculturalism and transcultu-
ralism will become important component of contempo-
rary social life.
In Chapter 2 entitled Management in culture,
issues such as the essence of managing culture, the
culture market, the role of the culture manager, the
history of cultural policy development, and the
marketing and economic context of culture have been
sufficiently analyzed. The last two issues are
particularly important from the point of view of reaching
a wide group of recipients with the message, but also
from the point of view of the financial "independence"
of cultural institutions. The authors rightly distinguish
the management of culture into the management of
artists and creators and the management of the so-called
cultural market. As far as financing the culture market
is concerned, they foresee a threat due to insufficient
national budgets. The chapter, like the previous one,
ends with a logical and concise summary.
Chapter 3, entitled Cultural sector, includes an
analysis of models of the cultural sector; the essence and
directions of the state's cultural policy; legal acts
relating to the cultural/artistic sector; modern forms of
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financing the cultural sector; problems and the future of
the cultural sector in Poland. The analyzed concepts are
complete. In this chapter, the authors emphasized that
the cultural sector is a kind of "playing field" in which,
on the one hand, the suppliers of cultural goods
participate, creating their supply, and on the other hand,
the recipients, whose needs and financial capabilities
determine the demand for the goods offered1.
In Chapter 4 entitled The creative sector was well
analyzed: the essence of the creative sector data and
statistics of the cultural and creative sectors in Poland
were quoted. The authors noted that creative industries
"are becoming more and more important for the Polish
economy year by year, both in terms of the number of
enterprises and their impact on the labor market"
(p. 120). The reviewed chapter discusses the essence of
cultural clusters, which in the era of the market economy
are becoming increasingly important. The part
concerning the comparison of selected industries of the
creative sector in Poland is the added value of this
chapter. Table 1 is an important part of it. Similarly, it
is important to address the topic of internationalization
of the cultural sector. The issue of internationalization
occupies a lot of space in scientific studies. Referring
this issue to the cultural sector is not only contemporary
but also future-oriented. The chapter ends with the
conclusion that "the cultural and creative sectors are a
dynamically developing branch of the economy in
Poland and an important postulate that these sectors
"should be more often related to each other because the
business sector is a set of potential patrons,
philanthropists, and sponsors, from whom the vast
majority of the condition of the culture sector in the
future will depend to a great extent (along with public
finances)” (p. 130).
Chapter 5, Funding culture in Europe, deals with
the important, sensitive, and serious problem of
maintaining and developing a socially and economically
important system. One of the important analyses
concerns the comparison of culture financing systems in
selected countries. There is interesting information on
spending on culture and employment in the cultural
sector in Europe, and on forms of support for artists
in the cultural sector, especially forms of business
support for culture and art. The importance of the
latter issue is increasing, so it seems right to analyze this
issue. The added value of the monograph is the
discussion of the issue of philanthropy and fundraising
as forms of supporting culture by business, as well as
Corporate Cultural Responsibility (CCR), which is not
included in the concept of corporate social responsibility
(CSR).
Chapter 6 titled Financing culture in Poland is a
logical continuation of Chapter 5, but only regarding
Poland. Table No. 6 gives an illustrative value. It would
1 Chwedorowicz J. Innowacyjna oferta kulturalna [w:] Zarządzanie w kulturze, Kraków 2009, t. 10, s. 323.
be advisable to add newer data - after 2016. From the
analysis of the content quoted in this chapter, an
important part is contemporary cultural policy and
the Polish model of financing culture, as well as
spending on culture in Poland. The authors highlighted
the problem of underfunding of the culture sector in
Poland compared to Europe, although they cited
statistics showing that the financing of culture has an
upward trend. They also concluded that employment in
the cultural sector in Poland is statistically lower than in
the European Union. An important contribution of the
authors is the proposal of changes and reforms in the
organization and financing of the cultural and creative
sector in Poland, although I encourage the authors to
adopt a more daring scenario.
Chapter 7 titled On artists, is dedicated to artists
themselves, as the description suggests. The authors
defined the notion of an artist and distinguished
creativity from a creative personality. They referred to
the status of the artist in international terms. On the other
hand, chapter 8, The labor market of Artists in Poland,
concerns, among others, the monitoring of the work of
artists in Poland. It is advisable to include summaries
and recapitulations in this part. The next issue Creative
Artist vs. Performing Artist is interesting, but rather
cursorily analyzed, as is the subtitle Traditional Forms
of financing cultural and artistic activities and New
Forms of financing cultural and artistic activities.
Regulating the work of artists and economic analysis of
the artists' labor market are other issues analyzed in this
chapter. The chapter provides a logical summary.
Chapter 9 The financial and economic situation of
artists in Poland begins with an analysis of the issue of
self-employment in culture. Next, the authors touched
on the business skills of artists. This is an important
issue and still too little discussed at the level of
education and higher education.
Chapter 10 The situation of graduates of art
schools in the labor market gives the reader a real idea
of the professional careers of art school graduates and
the opinion of employers on the skills of Polish art
school graduates. Addressing the problems with the
education of students in art schools is an important topic
of this monograph, as are the prospects for an artistic
career concerning musicians and visual artists.
Chapter 11 The situation of professional musicians
in the labor market includes an analysis of issues related
to employment opportunities in the modern labor market
in the European Union. In my opinion, the subchapter
Dynamics of musicians' careers in Poland is valuable,
because it sets trends. The cognitive aspect, however, is
in the part concerning earning opportunities in Poland
for professional musicians.
Chapter 12 The situation of visual artists in the
labor market concerns the analysis of a sublime group
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of artists. Both in the introduction and in the initial
part of this chapter, it is desirable to justify why only
a group of visual artists was included in the analyses.
The chapter contains an analysis of the art market in
Poland and the world, as well as new instruments for
investing in art. The practical value of the monograph is
in the subchapter entitled The use of the creative sector
in art. The monograph ends with a logical and concise
conclusion.
Although there are few graphic objects, this book
has introductions and descriptions, which is an asset of
the work, because the reader has the impression of
ordering the presented content and understands it better.
The bibliography contained in the study is complete and
very numerous. It consists of practically all available
literature in the field of analysis. The bibliography is up-
to-date and international in nature.
The study can be a textbook for teachers and
students of artistic and creative faculties. It can also be
a guide to current regulations and solutions that can be
used in the artistic and creative sectors. It is certainly
a source of valuable information for the representatives
of the government and local governments who manage
these sectors.
The language used in the study is correct and
simple, which is its advantage. This makes it easy to
understand the content. This monograph is theoretical
and analytical in nature, but its comprehensive and
extensive nature is a valuable source of analysis,
knowledge, and guidance. Therefore, to "go beyond the
circle" of textbooks, guides, and reports, and expand the
circle of scientific monographs, the above observations
are necessary to be clarified.
To sum up, the analyzed content is important
socially, economically, and economically (as well as
personally). Moreover, in my opinion, there is no such
comprehensive approach to the analyzed issue. This is a
serious asset that, combined with simple but scientific
language, can make the monograph the basis for many
citations.
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