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On The Margins Of Art Worlds (Hardcover)
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On The Margins Of Art Worlds (Hardcover)
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During the late 1980s, the near-worship of artistic genius produced
auction sales of works by Vmcent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso for
tens of millions of dollars, over $15 million for a painting by
Jasper Johns, and record prices for works by many other deceased
and even living masters. At the same time, it was no longer
controversial in academic and intellectual circles to maintain that
art works are the products of what Howard Becker has termed
collective activity carried out within loosely defined art worlds:
Works of art, from this point of view, are not the products of
individual makers, "artists" who possess a rare and special gift.
They are, rather, joint products of all the people who cooperate
via an art world's characteristic conventions to bring works like
that into existence. Artists are some sub-group of the world's
participants who, by common agreement, possess a specialgift,
therefore make a unique and indispensable contribution to the work,
and thereby make it art. (1982: 35) The concept of the art
world-with its central focus on the collective, social, and
conventional nature of artistic production, distribution, and
appreciation--confronts and potentially undermines the romantic
ideology of art and artists still dominant in Western societies.
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