Measuring the cultural value of the Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries Exhibition as a platform for emerging artists     

Ian Fillis  Boram Lee  Ian Fraser 《Cultural Trends》2015,24(3):245-255

In our analysis of the cultural value of the Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries Exhibition, we assessed the institution's role in shaping emerging artists’ careers, as well as wider cultural value. Supported by our conceptual framework of value creation, issues assessed included the expected versus experienced value of the exhibition and the individual artworks, price setting, the market mechanism surrounding the exhibition, and its enhancement. The created cultural value is facilitated by high-visibility media exposure and through development of career-enhancing networks. We have generated new insight into cultural value more generally by moving beyond dominant instrumental valuation approaches. We have addressed many of the gaps in understanding the mechanisms behind engagement with contemporary art. We have progressed theory with the assistance of our conceptual framework and supporting qualitative data. Cultural value is expressed in contemporary art through artistic production systems and its cultural messages. Artists’ cultural value is often constructed via the intrinsic worth of their work, rather than from market influences. Cultural value is often personal to the viewer, shared with others and remembered over time. It is also co-created among the other stakeholders involved.  相似文献   

The Anticipated Utility of Zoos for Developing Moral Concern in Children     

John Fraser 《Curator: The Museum Journal》2009,52(4):349-361

Abstract This study asked why parents value zoo experiences for themselves and their children. It proposes a new theory regarding the psychological value of such experiences for the development of identity. The study used a constructivist grounded theory approach to explore parenting perspectives on the value of zoo visits undertaken by eight families from three adjacent inner‐city neighborhoods in a major American city. The results suggest that parents use zoo visits as tools for promoting family values. These parents felt that experiences with live animals were necessary to encourage holistic empathy, to extend children's sense of justice to include natural systems, and to model the importance of family relationships. The author concludes that parents find zoos useful as a tool for helping their children to develop skills with altruism, to transfer environmental values, to elevate children's self‐esteem, and to inculcate social norms that they believe will aid in their children's social success in the future.  相似文献   

Preservice teachers’ perceptions of learning environments before and after pandemic-related course disruption     

Long  Christopher S.  Sinclair  Becky Barton  Fraser  Barry J.  Larson  Tiffany R.  Harrell  Pamela E. 《Learning Environments Research》2022,25(2):343-357

Learning Environments Research - When the 2020 semester began in the USA in January, it was unimaginable that the near-total closure of educational system across the globe would become the new...  相似文献   

Principles and Politics     

John Fraser 《Curator: The Museum Journal》2016,59(4):327-330

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