Different worlds : a sociological study of taste, choice and success in art
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Bibliographic Information
Different worlds : a sociological study of taste, choice and success in art
(The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association)
Cambridge University Press, 2006, c1989
- : paperback
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"This digitally printed first paperback version 2006" --T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 197-204
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Using a wealth of data collected in Israel, this study depicts a complete system in which art is created and evaluated - the scale of Israeli society allowing for a comprehensive and detailed description of all the agents involved in the production and consumption of modern art. The author analyses the patterns of social relations and behaviour created around two art worlds - the world of abstract avant-garde art and the world of traditional figurative painting. She argues that the two worlds differ radically both in terms of the factors that affect the formation of taste, the process of evaluation and the patterns of success in them and in the ways in which these factors exert their influence.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Historical background
- 2. The population of painters and the split into subsystems
- 3. Patterns of success
- 4. The 'gatekeepers' - critics
- 5. The 'gatekeepers' - curators
- 6. The 'gatekeepers' - gallery owners
- 7. The artists - attitudes of Conceptualists and Lyrical Abstractionists
- 8. The artists - attitudes of figurative painters
- 9. The publics
- 10. Conclusion
- Appendices
- Notes
- Index.
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