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Genre/Form: | Art criticism Critiques d'art |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Wesley Shrum |
ISBN: | 0691026572 9780691026572 0691021457 9780691021454 |
OCLC Number: | 34076878 |
Description: | xvi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: A Critic's New Clothes -- Ch. 1. Cultural Mediation and the Status Bargain -- Ch. 2. Critics in the Performing Arts -- Ch. 3. Development of the Festival Fringe -- Ch. 4. Festivals and the Modern Fringe -- Ch. 5. Myth of the Fringe -- Ch. 6. Do Critics Matter? -- Ch. 7. Critical Evaluation -- Ch. 8. Do Performers Listen? -- Ch. 9. Beyond Formal Evaluation -- Ch. 10. Discourse and Hierarchy -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Review Genres -- Appendix B: Methodological Note -- Appendix C: Note on the Mediation and Reception -- Appendix D: Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Responsibility: | Wesley Monroe Shrum, Jr. |
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Abstract:
Focuses on the way individuals form opinions about culture through the mediation of critics. This book shows that it is the extent to which critics shape the reception of an art form that determines its place in the cultural hierarchy. It supports this argument through an inquiry into the performing arts, focusing on the Edinburgh Fringe.
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"Fringe and Fortune has a charm and wit that novelist [Henry] James would have liked... The book includes an excellent and stunning review of relevant theories in aesthetics and the sociology of art and culture."--American Journal of Sociology "A solid sociological investigation, one that employs anecdote, interview, statistical analysis, and even some between-the-lines common sense."--K. Marantz, Choice Read more...
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