UB Arts Management & Policy Occasional Paper Series
Issue No. 5: The Aesthetic Contract: The Heart of Arts Management
Emeritus Professor John Pick
General Editor, Ruth Bereson
Isbn: 0-9776382-4-3 (Volume 5)
The Aesthetic Contract is an exploration on how the arts manager is ultimately in charge of securing the connection between the 'best art' and the 'best public.'
Professor John Pick founded Europe's first Department of Arts Policy and Management at City University, London. Pick has also held a number of visiting professorships in European and American universities and was twice appointed Gresham Professor of Rhetoric in the City of London. Professor Pick has published extensively and is author of Arts Administration, one of the definitive textbooks in the field. His other books include The West End: Mismanagement and Snobbery; Managing the Arts: The British Experience; The State and the Arts, The Theatre Industry, Vile Jelly: The Birth, Life and Lingering Death of the Arts Council of Great Britain; Building Jerusalem: Art Industry and the British Millennium, and Managing Britannia.
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