Images of Community

Durkheim, Social Systems and the Sociology of Art
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-72920-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

This title was first published in 2000. This work sets out to establish an original sociology of art and artistic practice. Based on the theories of Emile Durkheim, and contemporary models of complex social systems, it offers a critique of current history, philosophy and sociology of art. It cites a series of critical moments in the history of art in which communities of practice, criticism and appreciation are realized in images and in words. In so doing the work stands in a constructive, critical and informative relation to much contemporary art historical theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, John A.

Jenks, Chris

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: The need for paradigm change; Durkheim’s dangerous idea; Kinds of representing; The dream of human life: platonic, sophistic, and Christian imagery in Michelangelo’s art; Impossible representatives; Manet’s Olympia; Duchamp’s intervention; Greenberg’s notion of competence; Lucien Freud’s figuration; Gerhardt Richer; After Heidegger: notes toward a unified ontology; Bibliography.