The sociology of art : a reader /

The sociology of art : a reader / edited by Jeremy Tanner. - xi, 265 p. : 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Sociology and Art History -- Marxism and art history -- Social Being and Social Consciousness / Art and Ideology / Historical Development and Cultural Traditions / Art and cultural rationalization -- Magical Religion, Salvation Religion and the Evolution of Art / The Tensions Between Art and Ethical Religion / Art and Rationalization in the Western World / Symmetry and Social Organization / Social structure, material culture and symbolic communication -- Symbolic Meaning and Objectification / Symbolic Objects, Communicative Interaction and Social Creativity / Marxism and the social production of art -- Productive Forces / From Reflection to Meditation / Art as Collective Action / But Who Created the 'Creators'? / The Social Status of the Renaissance Artist / The Van Gogh Effect / Craftsmen's Art and Artists' Art / Material Agency and the Art of Artifacts / Art Criticism and the Institutions of the Public Sphere / Outline of a Sociological Theory of Art Perception / Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America / Conflicting Visions in American Art museums / The Dynamics of Spiritual Realities / Van Eyck Through the Looking Glass / Art as expressive symbolism: action theory and the sociology of art -- Expressive Symbolism and Social Interaction / The Cultural Elaboration of Expressive Meanings and the Evolution of Art / Karl Marx -- Karl Marx -- Karl Marx -- Max Weber -- Max Weber -- Max Weber -- Georg Simmel -- Emile Durkheim -- Emile Durkheim -- Raymond Williams -- Raymond Williams -- Howard S. Becker -- Pierre Bourdieu -- Arnold Hauser -- Natalie Heinich -- Norbert Elias -- David Brain -- Jurgen Habermas -- Pierre Bourdieu -- Paul DiMaggio -- Vera L. Zolberg -- Karl Mannheim -- Robert Witkin -- Talcott Parsons -- Talcott Parsons. 1. 1a. 1b. 1c. 2. 2a. 2b. 2c. 3. 4. 4a. 4b. 5. 5a. 5b. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 18a. 18b.

0415308844 (alk. paper) 0415308836 (pbk.: alk. paper)

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Art and society

N72.S6 / S62 2003

306.47

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