Art worlds
by Becker, Howard S., (Howard Saul)
"A classic sociological examination of art as collective action, Art Worlds explores the cooperative network of suppliers, performers, dealers, critics, and consumers that - along with the artist - "produces" a work of art. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition is updated with a new dialogue between Becker and eminent French sociologist Alain Pessin about the extended social system in which art is created and with a new preface in which the author talks about his own process for creating this i…
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- Full title :Art worlds / Howard S. Becker.
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"A classic sociological examination of art as collective action, Art Worlds explores the cooperative network of suppliers, performers, dealers, critics, and consumers that - along with the artist - "produces" a work of art. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition is updated with a new dialogue between Becker and eminent French sociologist Alain Pessin about the extended social system in which art is created and with a new preface in which the author talks about his own process for creating this influential work."--Jacket
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- Publication Date:©2008.
- Edition:25th anniversary ed., updated and expanded
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of California Press
- Place of Publication:Berkeley, Calif
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxviii, 408 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780520934870, 0520934873
- oclc:ocn609226553
- LC Classification:NX180.S6
- Dewey Decimal:700.103
Table of Contents
Art worlds and collective activity -- Conventions -- Mobilizing resources -- Distributing art works -- Aesthetics, aestheticians, and critics -- Art and the state -- Editing -- Integrated professionals, mavericks, folk artists, and naive artists -- Arts and crafts -- Change in art worlds -- Reputation -- Epilogue to the 25th anniversary edition.
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