Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in AestheticsISBN: 978-0-7456-3038-0
Hardcover
248 pages
March 2004, Polity
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Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction
to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central
debates of social theorists and sociologists about the place of the
arts in society and the social significance of aesthetics.
- 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.