Table of Contents

PART 1: THEORY PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE What is the 'Sociology of Art'?; D.Inglis and J.Hughson When Does Art Become Art? Assessing Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Artistic Fields; J.Jane Feminist Art and Feminist Sociology: New Departures; A.Howson A New Paradigm for a Sociology of Aesthetics; R.Witkin Invisible Aesthetics and the Social Work of Community Culture; P.Willis Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Culture; J.Wolff The Sociology of Art: Cynical or Celebratory?; D. Inglis PART 2: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: CASE STUDIES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ART Framing Old Age: Sociological Perspectives on the Art of the Past; M.Hepworth The Rise and Fall of the Art House Movie; A.Tudor Opera, Modernity and Cultural Fields; A.Swingewood 'World Music' and the Globalisation of Sound; R.Robertson and D.Inglis 'High Arts' and the Market: An Uneasy Partnership in the Transnational World of Ballet; H.Wulff Reconstructing the Centre: Sociological Approaches to the Rebuilding of Berlin; J.Stewart.

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DAVID INGLIS lectures in the Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen, UK. JOHN HUGHSON is Senior Lecturer in the School of Physical Education, University of Otaga, New Zealand.

About the Author

DAVID INGLIS lectures in the Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen, UK. JOHN HUGHSON is Senior Lecturer in the School of Physical Education, University of Otaga, New Zealand.

Reviews

'Inglis and Hughson are to be congratulated for producing such an exciting, innovative and rigorous collection of original papers on the sociology of art, which is long overdue in this area of study.' - Professor Helen Thomas, Research Director at London College of Fashion, UK