Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art

Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 121
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781000376746
ISBN-13 : 1000376745
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art by : Janet Wolff

Download or read book Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art written by Janet Wolff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1983, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art provides a lucid account of two divergent tendencies in the study of aesthetics. At the one extreme, traditional aestheticians have assumed that art and literature are wholly independent, following only the laws and inspirations of artists and artistic movements, and that the question of aesthetic value is accordingly unproblematic. At the other extreme, some sociologists have treated works of art as no more than manifestations of the socio-economic circumstances which produce them, arguing that aesthetic value is therefore entirely relative matter. Janet Wolff shows how both the extreme positions are untenable, and argues convincingly that we must accept that the conceptions and criteria of aesthetic value are socially constructed and inevitably ideological, while stopping short of the reductionist alternative which fails to recognise the irreducible questions of pleasure and of aesthetic discourse. This book provides an invaluably clear guide both to old debates and to otherwise obscure modern controversies, which will be welcomed both by students and scholars in the sociology of art, in aesthetics, in art history, and in literary criticism.


Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art Related Books

Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art
Language: en
Pages: 121
Authors: Janet Wolff
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-29 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

First published in 1983, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art provides a lucid account of two divergent tendencies in the study of aesthetics. At the one extreme
Sociology of Art
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Jeremy Tanner
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-06-02 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Introducing the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, this broad ranging book, the only edited reader of the sociology of art available, use
Art and Social Theory
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Austin Harrington
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-05 - Publisher: Polity

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theorists and sociolo
Georg Simmel
Language: en
Pages: 395
Authors: Georg Simmel
Categories: Aesthetics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"This book is a first of its kind: an edited collection bringing the finest of Georg Simmel's writing on art and aesthetics together, and bringing many of these
The Social Production of Art
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Janet Wolff
Categories: Arts and society
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981 - Publisher: Palgrave

DOWNLOAD EBOOK