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Art Unlimited? - Dynamics and Paradoxes of a Globalizing Art World

English · Paperback / Softback

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Until recently still a blank spot on the world map of art, China today occupies one of the top positions in the rankings of the global art market and has moved into the center of the speculations and the covetousness of its protagonists. But what is really happening on the spot, beyond the ethnocentric distortions of the Western viewpoint? What social representations and uses of art can be identified?
A research team from the University of St. Gallen has taken up such questions in an ethnographical field research project which enables the actors in this emergent and nonetheless already market-dominated art field to have their say.

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Franz Schultheis ist Professor für Soziologie an der Universität St. Gallen. Er ist u.a. Mitglied des Schweizer Wissenschafts- und Technologierates, Präsident der Fondation Pierre Bourdieu sowie Redaktionsmitglied von "Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales".

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»Dank der ausführlichen Interviews ermöglicht das Buch lesenswerte Einblicke in die Situation der Kunstszenen und -märkte von Hongkong und Shanghai im Jahr 2014. Gleichzeitig bietet das Buch den in den Sozialwissenschaften seltenen Fall einer Argumentation, bei der das von den Autoren präsentierte Evidenzmaterial die eigene These widerlegt.

Michael Hutter, www.sehepunkte.de, 18/2 (2018) 20180220

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Authors Rapha Köfeler, Raphaela Köfeler, Thomas Mazzurana, Fran Schultheis, Franz Schultheis, Erwi Single, Erwin Single
Publisher Transcript
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.03.2016
 
EAN 9783837632965
ISBN 978-3-8376-3296-5
No. of pages 264
Dimensions 159 mm x 224 mm x 18 mm
Weight 548 g
Illustrations 47 farb. Abb.
Series Kulturen der Gesellschaft
Cultures of Society
Kulturen der Gesellschaft
Cultures of Society
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous

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