On the margins of art worlds

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Label

On the margins of art worlds

Statement of responsibility

edited by Larry Gross

Contributor

• Gross, Larry P., 1942-

Subject

• Art and society
• Communication in art

Language

eng

Summary

The concept of the art world confronts and undermines the romantic ideology of art and artists that is still dominant in Western societies. By treating the production of art as work and artists as workers and examining the conditions under which these activities take place, this sociological perspective illuminates much that remains obscured by romantic individualism. The art worlds analysis represented in this collection of original studies questions the social arrangements that determine the recruitment and training of artists, the institutional mechanisms that govern distribution and influence success, the processes of innovation within art worlds, and the emergence of new formations around new media or new players. These studies share a focus on borderline cases and questions - on actions, transactions, and transitions at the margins of art worlds. Controversies and critical incidents expose many of the otherwise invisible rules and procedures that determine art world practices. Examining transitions across the border into art worlds has much to tell us about aesthetic values and biases obscured by the romantic ideology of artistic genius. Looking at art worlds organized around marginal media - amateur photography, video, graffiti - reveals patterns of interaction and evaluation strikingly reminiscent of those found in the fine art mainstream

Member of

• Institutional structures of feeling

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

701/.03

Index

no index present

LC call number

N72.S6

LC item number

O5 1995

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Institutional structures of feeling