Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in AestheticsISBN: 978-0-7456-3038-0
Hardcover
248 pages
March 2004, Polity
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- provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological study of
art;
- examines the central debates of social theorists and
sociologists about the place of the arts in society and the social
significance of aesthetics;
- discusses the meaning of the arts in relation to changing
cultural institutions and socio-economic structures;
- explores questions of aesthetic value and cultural politics,
taste and social class, money and patronage, ideology and utopia,
myth and popular culture, and the meaning of modernism and
postmodernism;
- presents lucid accounts of leading social theorists of the arts from Weber, Simmel, Benjamin, Kracauer and the Frankfurt School to Foucault, Bourdieu, Habermas, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Luhmann and Jameson.
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