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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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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