Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in Aesthetics

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Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in Aesthetics
Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theorists and sociologists about the place of the arts in society and the social significance of aesthetics.
- provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological study of art;
- examines the central debates of social theorists and sociologists about the place of the arts in society and the social significance of aesthetics;
- discusses the meaning of the arts in relation to changing cultural institutions and socio-economic structures;
- explores questions of aesthetic value and cultural politics, taste and social class, money and patronage, ideology and utopia, myth and popular culture, and the meaning of modernism and postmodernism;
- presents lucid accounts of leading social theorists of the arts from Weber, Simmel, Benjamin, Kracauer and the Frankfurt School to Foucault, Bourdieu, Habermas, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Luhmann and Jameson.
Country USA
Brand Polity
Manufacturer Polity
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 1, black & white illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780745630397
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Polity
Manufacturer	Polity
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	1, black & white illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780745630397
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in Aesthetics

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