Different Worlds

A Sociological Study of Taste, Choice and Success in Art

Liah Greenfeld (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

1989
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-36064-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.1.1989
Reihe/Serie	American Sociological Association Rose Monographs
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 237 mm
Gewicht	451 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-521-36064-1 / 0521360641
ISBN-13	978-0-521-36064-7 / 9780521360647
Zustand	Neuware