Author: Hauser, Arnold

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Book

Summary:

In this broad-ranging volume [translated by Kenneth J. Northcott] the author discusses multiple and diverse aspects of the sociology of art. Sections include the interaction between art and society, dialectic aspects, the route from author to public, the differentiation of art according to cultural strata, and the theorization of the end of art. Each of the six parts has several chapters, and concerns range from the highly theoretically to the empirical, lived experience of arts production and consumption.

Abstract:

In this broad-ranging volume [translated by Kenneth J. Northcott] the author discusses multiple and diverse aspects of the sociology of art. Sections include the interaction between art and society, dialectic aspects, the route from author to public, the differentiation of art according to cultural strata, and the theorization of the end of art. Each of the six parts has several chapters, and concerns range from the highly theoretically to the empirical, lived experience of arts production and consumption.

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