ABOLISH THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL - QUESTION MARK
By Derek Strahan BA Cantab (Modern Languages, French & Spanish)
Part 8 - COMPOSERS EARNING MONEY
COMPOSERS EARNING MONEY
To recap: the Arts Organisation is the principle employer of artists; but the Arts Organisations of today are very different to those of yesterday. A survey of the evolution of employment prospects for the artist, in European culture, shows that, previously, there was always a mix of organisations and individuals in the matter of providing artists with paid employment: and that there always was, and still is, an interaction between social and economic factors which influences the very nature of an art work.
For centuries the main employer was the Church, which we can define as an organisation, and which required from its art employees works of religious content. With the Renaissance, secular art began to emerge as a result of patronage of artists by wealthy individuals, inevitably from the aristocracy. The Church, however, remained an important patron.
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