{"product_id":"art-and-social-theory-austin-harrington-9780745630397","title":"Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in Aesthetics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArt and Social Theory\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theorists and sociologists about the place of the arts in society and the social significance of aesthetics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eprovides a comprehensive introduction to sociological study of art;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eexamines the central debates of social theorists and sociologists about the place of the arts in society and the social significance of aesthetics;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ediscusses the meaning of the arts in relation to changing cultural institutions and socio-economic structures;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eexplores questions of aesthetic value and cultural politics, taste and social class, money and patronage, ideology and utopia, myth and popular culture, and the meaning of modernism and postmodernism;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003epresents lucid accounts of leading social theorists of the arts from Weber, Simmel, Benjamin, Kracauer and the Frankfurt School to Foucault, Bourdieu, Habermas, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Luhmann and Jameson.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Austin Harrington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0745630391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745630397\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Austin Harrington","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990307012863,"sku":"9780745630397","price":31.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0d2ff2cc-39ef-44e2-808d-73bac7b683a3.jpg?v=1683304038","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/art-and-social-theory-austin-harrington-9780745630397","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}