Overview
- Concepts of power and domination and their role in contemporary arts
- Theoretical und empirical approaches
- International study
Part of the book series: Kunst und Gesellschaft (KUGE)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Establishing and De-Establishing Power in the Arts
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The Arts and the Power of Social Structures
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The Arts and the Dominance of Politics and Economic Order
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Dr. Lisa Gaupp, Professor of Cultural Institutions Studies at the Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM) at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Hon. Prof. Dr. Alenka Barber-Kersovan, Honorary Professor of Sociology of Music at the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization at Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Prof. Dr. Volker Kirchberg, Professor of Sociology of the Arts at the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization at Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Arts and Power
Book Subtitle: Policies in and by the Arts
Editors: Lisa Gaupp, Alenka Barber-Kersovan, Volker Kirchberg
Series Title: Kunst und Gesellschaft
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37429-7
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-37428-0Published: 06 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-37429-7Published: 05 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2625-1531
Series E-ISSN: 2625-154X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 358
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Knowledge - Discourse, Cultural Studies, Media Research