Contested qualities

How is value negotiated in the arts and culture? What is quality? And what does it entail to talk about quality in an artistic and cultural context? The ten articles in Contested Qualities discuss such questions from a variety of perspectives. They reflect on the conceptual and historical background for the discussion about quality, they analyse quality from the perspective of critical theory, and they raise the question: On which grounds if common grounds can be found is aesthetic and cultural value evaluated today?