TY - BOOK

T1 - Arts and Power

T2 - Policies in and by the Arts

A2 - Gaupp, Lisa

A2 - Barber-Kersovan, Alenka

A2 - Kirchberg, Volker

PY - 2022/11

Y1 - 2022/11

N2 - The focus on concepts of power and domination in societal structures has characterized sociology since its beginnings. Max Weber’s definition of power as “imposing one’s will on others” is still relevant to explaining processes in the arts, whether their production, imagination, communication, distribution, critique or consumption. Domination in the arts is exercised by internal and external rulers through institutionalized social structures and through beliefs about their legitimacy, achieved by defining and shaping art tastes.The complexity of how the arts relate to power arises from the complexity of the policies of artistic production, distribution and consumption—policies which serve to facilitate or hinder an aesthetic object from reaching its intended public. Curators, critics and collectors employ a variety of forms of cultural and artistic communication to mirror and shape the dominant social, economic and political conditions.Arts and Power: Policies in and by the Arts brings together diverse voices who position the societal functions of art in fields of domination and power, of structure and agency—whether they are used to impose hegemonic, totalitarian or unjust goals or to pursue social purposes fostering equal rights and grassroots democracy. The contributions in this volume are exploratory steps towards what we believe can be a more systematic, empirically and theoretically founded sociological debate on the arts and power. And they are an invitation to take further steps.

AB - The focus on concepts of power and domination in societal structures has characterized sociology since its beginnings. Max Weber’s definition of power as “imposing one’s will on others” is still relevant to explaining processes in the arts, whether their production, imagination, communication, distribution, critique or consumption. Domination in the arts is exercised by internal and external rulers through institutionalized social structures and through beliefs about their legitimacy, achieved by defining and shaping art tastes.The complexity of how the arts relate to power arises from the complexity of the policies of artistic production, distribution and consumption—policies which serve to facilitate or hinder an aesthetic object from reaching its intended public. Curators, critics and collectors employ a variety of forms of cultural and artistic communication to mirror and shape the dominant social, economic and political conditions.Arts and Power: Policies in and by the Arts brings together diverse voices who position the societal functions of art in fields of domination and power, of structure and agency—whether they are used to impose hegemonic, totalitarian or unjust goals or to pursue social purposes fostering equal rights and grassroots democracy. The contributions in this volume are exploratory steps towards what we believe can be a more systematic, empirically and theoretically founded sociological debate on the arts and power. And they are an invitation to take further steps.

KW - Cultural studies

KW - Power

KW - Politics in Art

KW - Political Art

KW - Affirmative Art

KW - Arts Sociology

KW - Critical Art

KW - Art organization

KW - Evaluation

KW - Pop Feminism

KW - Theatre

KW - Musical Politics

KW - Digital Arts

KW - World Music Market

KW - Science of art

UR - https://link.springer.com/book/9783658374280

UR - https://d-nb.info/1253238790

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-658-37429-7

DO - 10.1007/978-3-658-37429-7

M3 - Book

SN - 978-3-658-37428-0

T3 - Kunst und Gesellschaft

BT - Arts and Power

PB - Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

CY - Wiesbaden

ER -