1st Edition
How to Study Art Worlds On the Societal Functioning of Aesthetic Values
By Hans van Maanen
Copyright 2009
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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 book is divided into three sections, the first of which presents a comparative study of approaches... Read more
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 Experiences, References, Index.
Biography
Hans van Maanen is professor of art and society at the University of Groningen and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.
