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The sociology of art : a reader

Author: Jeremy Tanner
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2003.
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Provides students with an introduction to the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, using extracts from the core foundational and most influential contemporary writers in the  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jeremy Tanner
ISBN: 0415308844 9780415308847 0415308836 9780415308830
OCLC Number: 58401529
Description: xi, 265 p. : 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Classical Sociological Theory and the Sociology of Art; 1.1 Marxism and Art History; 1.2 Max Weber: art and cultural rationalisation; 1.3 Georg Simmel: the aesthetics of social reality; 1.4 Emile Durkheim: social structure, material culture and symbolic communication; 2. The Social Production of Art; 2.1 Raymond Williams: "Productive Forces", "From Reflection to meditation"; 2.2 Howard Becker: "Art as Collective Action"; 2.3 Pierre Boudiue: "But who created the creators?"; 3. The Sociology of the Artist Commentary; 3.1 A. Hauser: "The Social Status of the Renaissance Artist"; 3.2 Natalie Heinich: "The Van Gogh Effect" 3.3 Norbert Elias: "Craftsman's art and artisits art"; 3.4 David Brian: "Material agency and the art of artifacts"; 4. Museums and the Social Construction of High Culture Commentary; 4.1 Jurgen Habermas: "Art criticism and the institutions of the public sphere; 4.2 Pierre Bourdieu: "Outline of a sociological theory or art perception"; 4.3 Paul Di Maggio: "Cultural entrepreneurship in 19th century Boston: the creation of an organisational base for high culture in America"; 4.4 Vera Zolberg: "Conflicting visions in American art museums"; 5. Sociology, Aesthetic Form and the Specificity of Art; 5.1 Karl Mannheim: "The Dynamics of spiritual realities"; 5.2 Robert Witkin: "van Eyck through the looking glass: social structure, semiotic codes and the aesthetics of naturalism; 5.3 Talcott Parsons: "Art as expressive symbolism: action theory and the sociology of art"
Responsibility: edited by Jeremy Tanner.

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