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:2012.
- Edition:25th anniversary ed., updated and expanded, 3rd print
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of California Press
- Place of Publication:Berkeley, Calif
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
Notes
First ed.: 1982.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxviii, 408 Seiten : : Illustrationen
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780520256361, 0520256360
- oclc:ocn888416322
- LC Classification:NX180.S6
- Dewey Decimal:700.103
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