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Cosmopolitan Art and Cultural Citizenship

University of Durham, England.

The article begins by noting that the widespread assumption that the social basis of more difficult or cosmopolitan art has been undermined in later modernity should lead to blander, less controversial art. An alternative interpretation is briefly described in which cosmopolitan art has become a spectacular tourist attraction. Significant questions that would follow such a development are: how national cultural institutions have been co-opted into a global spectacular culture and whether the work displayed in these settings can be radically critical of dominant social values; and the implications of the development of a public culture focused on spectacular attractions for notions of cultural citizenship. In the article these questions are explored through a brief history of changing attitudes and values in British public culture, leading to a suggestion that we are experiencing an era of cultural fragmentation. The article concludes with a consideration of the possibilities for cultural citizenship in these changing circumstances.

Key Words: cosmopolitan art • citizenship • cultural citizenship • cultural fragmentation • public culture

Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 19, No. 1-2, 157-174 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/026327640201900108


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