While numerous studies over the years have focused on the ways in which art functions in our society, How to Study Art Worlds is the first to examine it in light of the organizational aspects of the art world. Van Maanen delves into the works of such sociologists as Howard S. Becker, Pierre Bourdieu, George Dickie, and Niklas Luhmann, among others, to examine the philosophical debates surrounding aesthetic experience—and then traces the consequences that each of these approaches has had and continues to have on organizations in the art world.
Author(s): Hans van Maanen
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 256
Table of Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
1. The Institutional Th eory of George Dickie......Page 19
2. The Institutionalist Pragmatism of Howard S. Becker and Paul Dimaggio......Page 33
3. Pierre Bourdieu’s Grand Th eory of the Artistic Field......Page 55
4. From Theory to the Methodology of Singularity: Bruno Latour and Nathalie Heinich......Page 85
5. Niklas Luhmann’s System of Artistic Communications......Page 107
6. How Art Worlds Help the Arts to Function......Page 127
7. What Philosophers Say that the Arts Do......Page 151
8. Foundations for the Functioning of Art Systems......Page 209
9. How Distribution Conditions the Functioning of Art......Page 243
10. How Aesthetic Values Become Contextualized......Page 277
Epilogue: For a Second Life of Artistic Experiences......Page 293
References......Page 297
Index......Page 305
