Artists as Cultural Intermediaries: How Professional Artists Present Their Work on Homepages and Instagram Accounts.
This article examines how professional visual artists without gallery representation intermediate their art online. By conceptualizing artists as cultural intermediaries, I studied how their actions affect perceptions of their works in the field of contemporary art. To this end, I conducted media go...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 55 - 70 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2025
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