Art worlds
"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
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxviii, 408 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780520256361, 0520256360
- oclc:ocn273500331
- LC Classification:NX180 S6
- Dewey Decimal:306.47
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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