Resumen de Cultural value and the aesthetics of publishing
Part of a special section on money, power, and the history of art. The writer raises some issues about the marginalization of intellectual life in society, focusing on book publishing and the specialism of art history. Among the topics discussed are the constraints imposed on writers on art by the canon of museums and academia, the publisher's role in education and stimulating intellectual debate, overproduction of books, the failure to distinguish between cultural production and cultural value, and the weakness of editors versus the growing power of marketing managers.
