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The sociology of art : a reader / edited by Jeremy Tanner - xi, 265 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-259) and index

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Sociology and Art History PART ONE Classical sociological theory and the sociology of art Marxism and art history Karl Marx Social Being and Social Consciousness (1859) Art and Ideology (1845/6) Historical Development and Cultural Traditions (1857/8; 1852) Art and cultural rationalization Max Weber Magical Religion, Salvation Religion and the Evolution of Art (1915) The Tensions Between Art and Ethical Religion (1922) Art and Rationalization in the Western World (1904) Symmetry and Social Organization (1896) Georg Simmel Social structure, material culture and symbolic communication Emile Durkheim Symbolic Meaning and Objectification (1912) Symbolic Objects, Communicative Interaction and Social Creativity (1912) PART TWO The social production of art Marxism and the social production of art Raymond Williams Productive Forces (1977) From Reflection to Mediation (1977) Art as Collective Action (1974) Howard S. Becker But Who Created the `Creators'? (1993) Pierre Bourdieu PART THREE The sociology of the artist The Social Status of the Renaissance Artist (1951) Arnold Hauser The Van Gogh Effect (1996) Natalie Heinich Craftsmen's Art and Artists' Art (1993) Norbert Elias Material Agency and the Art of Artifacts (1994) David Brain PART FOUR Museums and the social construction of high culture Art Criticism and the Institutions of the Public Sphere (1962) Jurgen Habermas Outline of a Sociological Theory of Art Perception (1968) Pierre Bourdieu Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of An Organizational Base for High Culture in America (1982) Paul DiMaggio Conflicting Visions in American Art Museums (1981) Vera L. Zolberg PART FIVE Sociology, aesthetic form and the specificity of art The Dynamics of Spiritual Realities (1982[1922]) Karl Mannheim Van Eyck through the Looking Glass (1995) Robert Witkin Art as expressive symbolism: action theory and the sociology of art Talcott Parsons Expressive Symbolism and Social Interaction (1951) The Cultural Elaboration of Expressive Meanings and the Evolution of Art (1961) References Index

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

LCCN: 2003001918

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Art and society
Art--Social aspects

LC Class. No.: N72.S6 / S62 2003