TY - BOOK AU - Tanner,Jeremy TI - The sociology of art: a reader SN - 0415308844 (alk. paper) AV - N72.S6 S62 2003 U1 - 306.47 21 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Art and society N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Sociology and Art History --; 1; Marxism and art history --; 1a; Social Being and Social Consciousness; Karl Marx --; 1b; Art and Ideology; Karl Marx --; 1c; Historical Development and Cultural Traditions; Karl Marx --; 2; Art and cultural rationalization --; 2a; Magical Religion, Salvation Religion and the Evolution of Art; Max Weber --; 2b; The Tensions Between Art and Ethical Religion; Max Weber --; 2c; Art and Rationalization in the Western World; Max Weber --; 3; Symmetry and Social Organization; Georg Simmel --; 4; Social structure, material culture and symbolic communication --; 4a; Symbolic Meaning and Objectification; Emile Durkheim --; 4b; Symbolic Objects, Communicative Interaction and Social Creativity; Emile Durkheim --; 5; Marxism and the social production of art --; 5a; Productive Forces; Raymond Williams --; 5b; From Reflection to Meditation; Raymond Williams --; 6; Art as Collective Action; Howard S. Becker --; 7; But Who Created the 'Creators'?; Pierre Bourdieu --; 8; The Social Status of the Renaissance Artist; Arnold Hauser --; 9; The Van Gogh Effect; Natalie Heinich --; 10; Craftsmen's Art and Artists' Art; Norbert Elias --; 11; Material Agency and the Art of Artifacts; David Brain --; 12; Art Criticism and the Institutions of the Public Sphere; Jurgen Habermas --; 13; Outline of a Sociological Theory of Art Perception; Pierre Bourdieu --; 14; Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America; Paul DiMaggio --; 15; Conflicting Visions in American Art museums; Vera L. Zolberg --; 16; The Dynamics of Spiritual Realities; Karl Mannheim --; 17; Van Eyck Through the Looking Glass; Robert Witkin --; 18; Art as expressive symbolism: action theory and the sociology of art --; 18a; Expressive Symbolism and Social Interaction; Talcott Parsons --; 18b; The Cultural Elaboration of Expressive Meanings and the Evolution of Art; Talcott Parsons ER -