TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tanner,Jeremy
TI  - The sociology of art: a reader 
SN  - 0415308844
AV  - N72.S6 S62 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Art and society
KW  - Art
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - 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
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