"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.
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