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Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art
Engelsk Hardback
Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art
Engelsk Hardback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
120
ISBN-13:
9780367682644
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0367682648
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
30 apr 2021
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
138mm
Højde:
216mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
30 apr 2021
Forfatter(e):
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