Economic Ekphrasis : Goldin+Senneby and Art for Business Education, Paperback by De Monthoux, Pierre Guillet; Wikberg, Erik (EDT), ISBN 395679544X, ISBN-13 9783956795442, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

<b>What happens when social scientists write about artworks: helping people blind to economic ideas see something for the first time.</b><p>What happens when social scientists write about artworks? How does it affect the academic environment of a business school and how does it change the perception of art? Can it be used as a novel scientific method in business studies? This book investigates these matters by analyzing the Goldin+Senneby's retrospective exhibition &#8220;Standard Length of a Miracle&#8221; set up in Tensta konsthall and multiple other venues in Stockholm in the spring of 2016.</p><p>While the use of ekphrases goes back to ancient times in our Western literary canon, it is new and unexplored territory for social scientists at business schools&#8212;to describe artworks for people who who are blind to economic concepts and ideas, helping them see what they did not see before</p><p><i>Economic Ekphrasis: Goldin+Senneby and Art for Business Education</i> is part of the SSE Art Initiative series Experiments in Art and Capitalism.</p><p>Contributors</p><p>Maria Lind, Marie-Louise Fendin, &#214;rjan Sj&#246;berg, Ismail Ert&#252;rk, Anastasia Seregina, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Pamela Schultz Nybacka, Emma Stenstr&#246;m, Katie Kitamura, Clare Birchall, Brian Kuan Wood<br></p>