Sociology of the Arts. Victoria D. Alexander
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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data
Names: Alexander, Victoria D., author.
Title: Sociology of the arts : exploring fine and popular forms / Victoria D. Alexander.
Description: Second edition. | Hoboken, NJ, USA : Wiley Blackwell, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020014461 (print) | LCCN 2020014462 (ebook) | ISBN 9780470672884 (paperback) | ISBN 9781118326527 (e pdf) | ISBN 9781118323465 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Arts and society.
Classification: LCC NX180.S6 A435 2020 (print) | LCC NX180.S6 (ebook) | DDC 306.4/7—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020014461 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020014462
Cover Design: Wiley
Cover Image: Self‐Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de, Rosemond (died1788) 1785, Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953/Metmuseum.org, Modern Greek Goddess © lambada/Getty Images
List of Illustrations
| Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Julie Le Brun Looking in a Mirror (1787), Detail | |
| 3.1 | DVD Cover Sleeve for Ratatouille (2007) |
| 3.2 | Film Poster for Natural Born Killers (1994) |
| 5.1 | “Guan Ju,” a poem in the illustrated edition of the Book of Odes, calligraphy and watercolor by the Qianlong Emperor(Qing Dynasty) |
| 5.2 | Felicien Myrbach‐Rheinfeld, Candidates for Admission to the Paris Salon (late nineteenth century–early twentieth century) |
| 6.1 | Theatre Program for the London Production of the Musical Hamilton. |
| 11.1 | Titian, Diana and Actaeon (1556–1559) |
| 12.1 | Social Boundaries in Action, a New Yorker Cartoon by J. B. Handelsman |
| 13.1 | Alexandre Cabanel, The Birth of Venus (1863) |
| 13.2 | Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ (ca.1450) |
| 14.1 | Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes (1610) |
| 14.2 | Henri Gervex, Rolla (1878) |
List of Tables
| 1.1 | What is Art? Manifestations of Culture Included and Excluded from Consideration in This Book |
| 5.1 | Precepts of the French Academy |
| 8.1 | Three Definitions of “Artist” |
| 12.1 | Musical Styles included in the 1993 General Social Survey |
| 12.2 | Legitimate, Common, and Unauthorized Cultural Forms |
List of Figures
| 4.1 | Griswold’s Cultural Diamond |
| 4.2 | Modified Cultural Diamond |
| 6.1 | The Long Tail |
| 10.1 | Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata BWV 140, “Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme” (“Sleepers Awake”) |
| 13.1 | Myth as a Second‐Order Semiological System |
| 13.2 | Drawing after a Woodcut in Santo Brasca’s Itinerario di Gerusalemme (Milan, 1481) |
List of Boxes
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