While numerous studies over the years have focused on the ways in which art functions in our society,How to Study Art Worldsis 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 consequences that each of these approaches has had and continues to have on organizations in the art world.
Hans van Maanenis professor of art and society at the University of Groningen.
Introduction
PART ONE THE ART WORLD AS A SYSTEM
1 The Institutional Theory of George Dickie
2 The Institutional Pragmatism of Howard S. Becker and Paul DiMaggio
3 Pierre Bourdieu’s Grand Theory of the Artistic Field
4 From Theory to the Methodology of Singularity: Bruno Latour and Nathalie Heinich
5 Niklas Luhmann’s System of Artistic Communications
6 How Art Worlds Help the Arts to Function
PART TWO ON VALUES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE ARTS
7 What Philosophers Say that the Arts Do
PART THREE HOW TO STUDY ART WORLDS
Introduction
8 Foundations for the Functioning of Art Systems
9 How Distribution Conditions the Functioning of Art
10 How Aesthetic Values Become Contextualized
Epilogue: For a Second Life of Artistic Experiences
References
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