Introducing the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, this broad ranging book, the only edited reader of the sociology of art available, uses extracts from the core foundational and most influential contemporary writers in the field. As such it is essential reading both for students of the sociology of art, and of art history. Divided into five sections, it explores the following key themes: * classical sociological theory and the sociology of art * the social production of art * the sociology of the artist * museums and the social construction of high...
Introducing the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, this broad ranging book, the only edited reader of the sociology of art a...
This text provides students with an introduction to the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, using extracts from the core foundational contemporary writers in the field. The book is divided into five sections exploring key themes in the sociology and social history of art. These are: classical sociological theory and the sociology of art; the social production of art; the sociology of the artist; the social construction of high culture; and sociological aesthetic form and the specificity of art. With the addition of an introductory essay that not only contextualizes the...
This text provides students with an introduction to the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, using extracts from the core foundat...
Art's Agency and Art History re-articulates the relationship of the anthropology of art to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art history, sociology, and linguistics.
Explores important concepts and perspectives in the anthropology of art
Includes nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationally renowned group of art historians and art theorists
Covers a wide range of periods, including Bronze-Age China, Classical Greece, Rome, and Mayan, as well as the modern Western world
Features an...
Art's Agency and Art History re-articulates the relationship of the anthropology of art to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art...
Art's Agency and Art History re-articulates the relationship of the anthropology of art to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art history, sociology, and linguistics.
Explores important concepts and perspectives in the anthropology of art
Includes nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationally renowned group of art historians and art theorists
Covers a wide range of periods, including Bronze-Age China, Classical Greece, Rome, and Mayan, as well as the modern Western world
Features an...
Art's Agency and Art History re-articulates the relationship of the anthropology of art to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art...
In this book contemporary perspectives in the sociology of art are brought to bear on a series of fundamental questions in the history of Greek art. It is argued that artists sought to enhance their status and autonomy in the classical period by writing theoretical treatises and producing works of art intended for purely aesthetic contemplation. This ultimately gave rise to the practice of art history writing, and the development of art collecting. The Greeks, however, developed their own very specific ethos of connoisseurship.
In this book contemporary perspectives in the sociology of art are brought to bear on a series of fundamental questions in the history of Greek art. I...
In this book contemporary perspectives in the sociology of art are brought to bear on a series of fundamental questions in the history of Greek art. It is argued that artists sought to enhance their status and autonomy in the classical period by writing theoretical treatises and producing works of art intended for purely aesthetic contemplation. This ultimately gave rise to the practice of art history writing, and the development of art collecting. The Greeks, however, developed their own very specific ethos of connoisseurship.
In this book contemporary perspectives in the sociology of art are brought to bear on a series of fundamental questions in the history of Greek art. I...
