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Author: Janet Wolff
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1993-10
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0814792707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Social Production of Art Janet Wolff shows systematically that the arts can be understood adequate only in a sociological perspective and argues that art is the complex construction of a number of historical factors.
Author: Janet Wolff
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780333271476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Janet Wolff
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1993-10-13
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1349230413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book has been a standard text for cultural studies and the sociology of art since its first appearance in 1981. It provides a clear and useful overview of theories and studies which contribute to the project of a sociology of art, ranging from sociology to art history, literary theory, feminism and media studies. The author also bridges the gap between European approaches and the American production of culture approach, and addresses the key questions of the role of the reader/viewer, the nature of authorship, and the possibility of cultural politics. The new edition contains an Afterword by the author.
Author: Jeremy Tanner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06-02
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1134393296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroducing the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, this broad ranging book, the only edited reader of the sociology of art available, uses extracts from the core foundational and most influential contemporary writers in the field. As such it is essential reading both for students of the sociology of art, and of art history. Divided into five sections, it explores the following key themes: * classical sociological theory and the sociology of art * the social production of art * the sociology of the artist * museums and the social construction of high culture * sociology aesthetic form and the specificity of art. With the addition of an introductory essay that contextualizes the readings within the traditions of sociology and art history, and draws fascinating parallels between the origins and development of these two disciplines, this book opens up a productive interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology and art history as well as providing a fascinating introduction to the subject.
Author: Janet Wolff
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 218
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Herzfeld
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993-10
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0226329089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this fascinating book, Michael Herzfeld argues that 'modern' bureaucratically regulated societies are no more 'rational' or less 'symbolic' than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. Drawing primarily on the example of modern Greece and utilizing other European materials, he suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance, personal character, social relationships and responsibility. He points out that both formal regulations and day-to-day bureaucratic practices rely heavily on the symbols and language of the moral boundaries between insiders and outsiders; a ready means of expressing prejudice and of justifying neglect. It therefore happens that societies with proud traditions of generous hospitality may paradoxically produce at the official level some of the most calculated indifference one can find anywhere.
Author: Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780231082877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalysis of art, literature and aesthetics
Author: Setha Low
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-08-12
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1317369637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize. In developing the concept of spatializing culture, Setha Low draws on over twenty years of research to examine social production, social construction, embodied, discursive, emotive and affective, as well as translocal approaches. A global range of fieldwork examples are employed throughout the text to highlight not just the theoretical development of the idea of spatializing culture, but how it can be used in undertaking ethnographies of space and place. The volume will be valuable for students and scholars from a number of disciplines who are interested in the study of culture through the lens of space and place.
Author: Janet Wolff
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780801487422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a masterly book on the sociology of modernism, Janet Wolff explores work that was primarily realist and figurative and investigates the processes by which art fell by the wayside in the post-war period.
Author: Janet Wolff
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-04-29
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 1000376745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1983, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art provides a lucid account of two divergent tendencies in the study of aesthetics. At the one extreme, traditional aestheticians have assumed that art and literature are wholly independent, following only the laws and inspirations of artists and artistic movements, and that the question of aesthetic value is accordingly unproblematic. At the other extreme, some sociologists have treated works of art as no more than manifestations of the socio-economic circumstances which produce them, arguing that aesthetic value is therefore entirely relative matter. Janet Wolff shows how both the extreme positions are untenable, and argues convincingly that we must accept that the conceptions and criteria of aesthetic value are socially constructed and inevitably ideological, while stopping short of the reductionist alternative which fails to recognise the irreducible questions of pleasure and of aesthetic discourse. This book provides an invaluably clear guide both to old debates and to otherwise obscure modern controversies, which will be welcomed both by students and scholars in the sociology of art, in aesthetics, in art history, and in literary criticism.
