Vision and Society: Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art: 124 (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
Vision and Society: Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art: 124 (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
John Clammer
Vision and Society is an attempt to show that it is possible to go beyond a sociology of art to the more ambitious possibility of a sociology from art. This book develops a theory of the relationship of the visual and the social and illustrates these with comparative examples from around the world.
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The sociology of art is now an established sub-discipline of sociology. But little work has been done to explore the implications not of society on art, but of art on the nature and principles of sociology itself.
Vision and Society explores the ways in which art (here mainly understood as visual art) structures in fundamental ways the constitution of society, the relations between societies and the ways in which society and culture should be theorized. Building initially on an unfulfilled project by the French sociologist of art Nathalie Heinich to derive a sociology from art, this book pushes this idea in unconventional directions. Rethinking the relationships between the study of art and the study of sociology and anthropology, this book explores how this rethinking might impact sociological theory in general, and certain aspects of it in particular – especially the study of social movements, social change, the urban, the constitution of space and the ways in which human social relationships are mediated and expressed.
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Title - Vision and Society: Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art: 124 (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
Edition -
Author - John Clammer
ISBN 13 - 9780415722575
Imprint - Routledge
Publisher - Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date Published - 20/03/2014
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No. of pages -
Binding Type - Hardback
Dimensions - 156 x 234 x mm
Weight - 600 g
Languages - English