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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Sociology of Art"”.
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Positioning Artists Engaging in Community-based, Participatory Artistic Interventions in Singapore: Deriving a Position of Equilibrium through Constituency, Constraints and Communityship
Positioning Artists Engaging in Community-based, Participatory Artistic Interventions in Singapore: Deriving a Position of Equilibrium through Constituency, Constraints and Communityship seeks to fill the gap arising from a lack of studies addressing the positioning of artists who engage in the …
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Playing Games with Art: The Cultural and Aesthetic Legitimation of Digital Games
… them, digital games are undergoing a process of cultural and aesthetic legitimation; the question of digital games’ legitimacy as art is being raised with increasing urgency in a variety of different contexts. Mobilizing a conceptual framework derived from media studies, the sociology of art, …
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Trending in the margins: contemporary art from Nigeria in the global markets
Earlier studies have established that the value of art is socially constructed in the global markets. Drawing on the artistic field, feminist and post-colonial theories; this research explored the circumstances regarding the relative international obscurity and under-representation of contemporary …
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The Festival in the Meta-system of Culture
Crossing the borders of various disciplines – anthropology, cultural studies, cultural theory, sociology of culture, sociology of art, art history, art criticism, events management and tourism – festival studies are slowly attracting academic attention in their search for independent status among …
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Contemporary Art and the Exhibitionary System: China as a Case Study
The challenge of contemporary art, unlike in art history, has only recently been identified in sociology. Furthermore, an overly philosophical orientation, has undermined sociological expla- nations of artistic production. To remedy this, I propose a sociology of exhibitions. This entails a shift …
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Waka After the Kokinshu: Anatomy of a Cultural Phenomenon
The dissertation is a study of the boom of waka poetry in the tenth century. Waka is approached here as a cultural phenomenon, that is, a complex system of people, practices, and ideas centering around the production, distribution, and consumption of cultural artifacts. Four main aspects of this …