Title: Art and Aesthetics, (4 Volume Set) Author: David Inglis, Marta Herrero ISBN: 041545011X / 9780415450119 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 1430 Publisher: Routledge Year: 2008 Availability: 45-60 days
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Under what social conditions do particular sorts of arts and aesthetics arise and flourish, and under what conditions do they decline and disappear? What types of artistic and aesthetic practices exist outside of museums, galleries, and other high-cultural institutions? In what ways are social relations and broader cultural forces embedded within particular artworks, or specific artistic genres and forms? What roles can - and do - aesthetic orientations and artistic processes and products play in social life? In what ways are arts and aesthetics socially organized, regulated, distributed, and utilized? How are ‘art worlds’ connected to other major social institutions, such as politics and the economy, and has art become just an offshoot of consumer and celebrity culture?
Serious work on dizzying questions such as these has a long pedigree, stretching back at least to the writings of Giambattista Vico and Madame de Staël in the eighteenth century. Very simply put, both these authors were concerned with tracing the manifold relations that can pertain between the arts - and, more broadly, ‘aesthetics’ - on the one hand, and ‘society’ on the other. Since then, social scientists in many disciplines have had compelling things to say about art and aesthetics. In some disciplines - such as anthropology - this is a fact of long standing, while in others - like human geography - it is of more recent provenance. But the most striking recent surge of interest in the area has taken place in sociology, where never before have cultural forces and phenomena been so centrally on the research agenda.
Addressing the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of scholarly literature, Art and Aesthetics is a new title in the Routledge series, Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences. Edited by two leading scholars, this new Major Work from Routledge brings together in four volumes foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship to provide a synoptic view of all the key issues and current debates.
In particular, this new collection brings together for the first time the most important research on how social relations are embodied in artistic and aesthetic products and processes, and how these in turn can affect social life and societal organization. Rooted in sociology, but also embracing a broad range of diverse contributions from other disciplines - such as anthropology, philosophy, art history, cultural studies, media studies, film studies, gender studies, and postcolonial studies - Art and Aesthetics demonstrates the great vitality of this area of research and teaching. It highlights both how social scientists are increasingly developing sophisticated ways of understanding artistic and aesthetic issues, and also how scholars in the humanities are drawing upon social-scientific ideas and methods in order more fully to engage with such matters than hitherto was possible.
Art and Aesthetics is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students interested in the relations between arts, aesthetics, culture, and society as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
Volume I : Classical Contributions to The Study of Art and AesThetics
Part I : Classical Social Scientific Understandings of Art and AesThetics Chapter 1 : The AesThetic Views of Marx and Engels’, The Journal of AesThetics and Art Criticism Chapter 2 : Georg Simmel and The AesThetics of Social Reality’, Social Forces Chapter 3 : Art Work and Modernity : The Legacy of Georg Lukacs’, New German Critique Chapter 4 : Sociology of Literature in Retrospect’, Critical Inquiry Chapter 5 : Life Contra Ration : Music and Social Theory’, Sociological Theory Chapter 6 : Thorstein Veblen at The University of Chicago and The Socialization of AesThetics’, Design Issues Chapter 7 : Why Did Adorno "Hate" Jazz?’, Sociological Theory Chapter 8 : Max Weber and The Sociology of Music’, Sociological Forum
Part II : Art History, AesThetics, and Society Chapter 9 : Art Content and Social Involvement’, Social Forces Chapter 10 : The Study of Art in a Cultural Context’, The Journal of AesThetics and Art Criticism Chapter 11 : The L’Art Pour L’Art Problem’, Critical Inquiry Chapter 12 : Sociology Versus AesThetics’, AesThetics and The Sociology of Art Chapter 13 : A "New" Paradigm for a Sociology of AesThetics, The Sociology of Art : Ways of Seeing Chapter 14 : Thinking Sociologically : Thinking AesThetically : Between Convergence and Difference with Some Historical Reflections on Sociology and Art History’, History of The Human Sciences
Volume II : Art As Social Institution and Collective Practice
Chapter 15 : A New System Emerges’, Canvases and Careers : Institutional Change in The French Painting World Chapter 16 : Art as an Institution’, American Sociological Review Chapter 17 : Serious Reflections on "The Rise of The Novel"’, Novel : A Forum on Fiction Chapter 18 : Sociological Explanation of The Arts : Some Distinctions, The Sociology of Art and Literature Chapter 19 : Art as Collective Action’, American Sociological Review Chapter 20 : The Transfiguration of The Commonplace’, Journal of AesThetics and Art Criticism Chapter 21 : Art as a Cultural System Chapter 22 : Institutions’, Culture Chapter 23 : The Field of Cultural Production, or : The Economic World Reversed’, Poetics : Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, The Media, and The Arts Chapter 24 : The Work of Art and The Self-Reproduction of Art’, Thesis Eleven Chapter 25 : Classification in Art’, American Sociological Review Chapter 26 : The Invention of The Artist’s Life’, Yale French Studies Chapter 27 : Craftsmen’s Art and Artists’ Art’, Mozart : Portrait of a Genius Chapter 28 : Those Things That Hold Us TogeTher : Taste and Sociology’, Cultural Sociology
Part III : Evaluating The Social Scientific Study of Art and AesThetics Chapter 29 : AesThetic Neutrality and The Sociology of Art’, in Michèle Barrett et al : (eds.), Ideology and Cultural Production Chapter 30 : Methodological Dilemmas in The Sociology of Art’, in Diana Crane (ed.), The Sociology of Culture : Emerging Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 31 : Sociological Imperialism and The Field of Cultural Production : The Case of Bourdieu’, Theory, Culture & Society Chapter 32 : Art’s World and The Social World’, Social Theories of Art : A Critique Chapter 33 : Against The Sociology of Art’, Philosophy of The Social Sciences Chapter 34 : The Sociology of Art : Between Cynicism and Reflexivity’, in David Inglis and John Hughson (eds.), The Sociology of Art : Ways of Seeing
Volume III : The Social Organisation of Art and AesThetics
Part IV : Art and Social Class Chapter 35 : Social Class and Arts Consumption : The Origins and Consequences of Class Differences in Exposure to The Arts in America’, Theory and Society Chapter 36 : Changing Highbrow Taste : From Snob to Omnivore’, American Sociological Review Chapter 37 : The Arts as Cultural Capital Among Elites : Bourdieu’s Theory Reconsidered’, Poetics : Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, The Media and The Arts Chapter 38 : Social Stratification and Cultural Consumption : The Visual Arts in England’, Poetics : Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, The Media and The Arts
Part V : Art and Gender Chapter 39 : Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’, ARTnews Chapter 40 : The Sociology of Female Artists’, Studies in Symbolic Interaction Chapter 41 : Fame and Misfortune : Edging Women Out of The Great Literary Tradition’, The American Journal of Sociology Chapter 42 : Introduction : Feminism and Art in The Twentieth Century, The Power of Feminist Art : The American Movement of The 1970s : History and Impact
Part VI : Art and Ethnicity Chapter 43 : Black AesThetics, Feminist AesThetics, and The Problems of Oppositional Discourse’, Cultural Critique Chapter 44 : "Primitive Fakes", "Tourist Art" and The Ideology of AuThenticity’, Journal of AesThetics and Art Criticism Chapter 45 : What’s in a Price? An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction’, Journal of Material Culture
Part VII : Artistic Careers and Reputations Chapter 46 : Recognition and Renown : The Survival of Artistic Reputations’, The American Journal of Sociology Chapter 47 : Musical Patronage and Social Change in Beethoven’s Vienna’, The American Journal of Sociology Chapter 48 : From Silence to Hermeneutics : The Posthumous Making of van Gogh’s Oeuvre’, The Glory of Van Gogh : An Anthropology of Admiration Chapter 49 : The Empirical Study of Careers in Literature and The Arts, The Psychology and Sociology of Literature
Part VIII : Categorizing Art : From ‘Low’ to ‘High’ Chapter 50 : From Folk Art to Fine Art : A Transformation in The Meaning of Photographic Work’, Urban Life and Culture Chapter 51 : Intellectualization and Art World Development : Film in The United States’, American Sociological Review
Volume IV : Investigating Contemporary Art Worlds
Part IX : Categorizing Art : From ‘Outsiders’ to ‘Insiders’ Chapter 52 : "Loser Wins" : Outsider Art and The Salvaging of Disinterestedness’, Poetics : Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, The Media and The Art Chapter 53 : Asylum Art : The Social Construction of an AesThetic Category, Outsider Art : Contesting Boundaries in Contemporary Culture
Part X : The Sociology of Museums and Art Collections Chapter 54 : On The Relevance of Basil Bernstein's Theory of Codes to The Sociology of Art Museums’, Journal of Material Culture Chapter 55 : Pictures at an Exhibition : Conflicting Pressures in Museums and The Display of Art’, The American Journal of Sociology Chapter 56 : Towards a Sociology of Art Collections : Irish Intellectuals, Modernity and The Making of a Modern Art Collection’, International Sociology Chapter 57 : Having One’s Tate and Eating it : Transformations of The Museum in a Hypermodern Era, Art and its Publics : Museum Studies at The Millennium
Part XI : Avant-Gardes and Contemporary Art Chapter 58 : Reward Systems in Avant-Garde Art : Social Networks and Stylistic Change, Art and Society : Readings in The Sociology of Art Chapter 59 : TransaesThetics’, The Transparency of Evil Chapter 60 : The Meaning of Art and The Art of Meaning’, Postmodernity and its Discontents Chapter 61 : The Sociology of Contemporary Art : Questions of Method, Think Art : Theory and Practice in The Art of Today Chapter 62 : Locating Art Worlds : London and The Making of Young British Ar Chapter 63 : AesThetic Uncertainty : The New Canon?’, in Mark Jacobs and Nancy Weiss Hanrahan, The Blackwell Companion to The Sociology of Culture
Part XII : Arts and Values Chapter 64 : Art Galleries as Gatekeepers : The Case of The Abstract Expressionists’, Social Research Chapter 65 : The Construction of Art Values’, International Sociology Chapter 66 : Symbolic Meanings of Prices : Constructing The Value of Contemporary Art in Amsterdam and New York Galleries’, Theory and Society Chapter 67 : A Most Ingenious Paradox : The Market for Contemporary Fine Art’, American Anthropologist Chapter 68 : Corporate Collectors of Contemporary Art in Britain’, in Rosanne Martorella (ed.), Art and Business : An International Perspective on Sponsorship
Part XIII : Art and Globalization Chapter 69 : Three Walls : Regional AesThetics and The International Art World, The Traffic in Culture : Refiguring Art and Anthropology Chapter 70 : Aboriginal Art in a Global Context, Worlds Apart : Modernity through The Prism of The Local Chapter 71 : Globalization and Mixing in The Visual Arts : An Empirical Survey of "High Culture" and Globalization’, International Sociology