Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in A esthetics (Hardcover)

"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.

General

Imprint:	Polity Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2004
First published:	March 2004
Authors:	A. Harrington
Dimensions:	234 x 154 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-7456-3038-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	0-7456-3038-3
Barcode:	9780745630380

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