How to Study Art Worlds
Maanen, PROF. DR. Hans van 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 con...