How to study art worlds : on the societal functioning of aesthetic values

This necessary and thought-provoking study brings together the organisational side of the world of the arts and the understanding of the many functions art fulfi lls in our culture. The author sets out to establish how the organisation of art worlds serves the functioning of the arts in society. The...

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Main Author: Maanen, Hans van (Author, VerfasserIn)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press , 2009
Online Access:http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt46n0p3
Related Items:Print version: How to study art worlds
Author Notes:Hans van Maanen
E-Book Packages:JSTOR E-Books in Art, Design and Photography
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: The Art World as a System
  • The Institutional Theory of George Dickie
  • The Institutionalist Pragmatism of Howard S. Becker and Paul DiMaggio
  • Pierre Bourdieu's Grand Theory of the Artistic Field
  • From Theory to the Methodology of Singularity: Bruno Latour and Nathalie Heinich
  • Niklas Luhmann's System of Artistic Communications
  • How Art Worlds Help the Arts to Function
  • Part 2: On Values and Functions of the Arts
  • What Philosophers Say that the Arts Do
  • Part 3: How to Study Art Worlds
  • Introduction
  • Foundations for the Functioning of Art Systems
  • How Distribution Conditions the Functioning of Art
  • How Aesthetic Values Become Contextualized
  • Epilogue: For a Second Life of Artistic Experiences.

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