Arts and Power: Policies in and by the Arts
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Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2022. 358 p. (Kunst und Gesellschaft).
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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 - Collected editions and anthologies
SN - 978-3-658-37428-0
T3 - Kunst und Gesellschaft
BT - Arts and Power
PB - Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
CY - Wiesbaden
ER -