Beschreibung:
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.
Part I: Revisioning Art and Society 1. For a Sociology and Anthropology from Art 2. Social Aesthetics/Sociological Aesthetics 3. Art and Social Transformation: Challenges to the Discourse and Practice of Human Development 4. The Aesthetics of Social Change 5. The Aesthetics of the Urban: Visual Anthropology, Space, Place and Public Culture 6. Aesthetics Beyond Art: Conviviality and Social Imagination 7. Art Movements as Social Movements 8. The Migration of the Image: Art and the Politics and Sociology of Space Part II: Cases in Point 9. Modernism, the Colonial and the Negotiation of Representation: the Bauhaus in Asia 10. Art in the Colonial Encounter: Cultural Imperialism, Symbolic Resistance, and the Creation of Modern Korean Art 11. Rethinking the Sociology of Japanese Visual Culture: Historical Amnesia, Popular Culture and Contemporary Art in Japan