How to study art worlds : on the societal functioning of aesthetic values / Hans van Maanen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maanen, Hans van, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society.

Aesthetics.

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 fulfills in our culture.

Contents:

Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. The Institutional Theory of George Dickie; 2. The Institutionalist Pragmatism of Howard S. Becker and Paul Dimaggio; 3. Pierre Bourdieu's Grand Theory of the Artistic Field; 4. From Theory to the Methodology of Singularity: Bruno Latour and Nathalie Heinich; 5. Niklas Luhmann's System of Artistic Communications; 6. How Art Worlds Help the Arts to Function; 7. What Philosophers Say that the Arts Do; 8. Foundations for the Functioning of Art Systems; 9. How Distribution Conditions the Functioning of Art; 10. How Aesthetic Values Become Contextualized

Epilogue: For a Second Life of Artistic ExperiencesReferences; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-301) and index.

CC BY-NC

ISBN:

1-003-69756-9

1-04-077451-2

1-282-45377-7

9786612453779

90-485-1090-2

9781003697565

OCLC:

607563510

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5117/9789089641526