In light of the sociological insight that it is left to the art system what counts as art, new artistic
forms inevitably alter the prevailing concept of art. The article examines how artistic …

The sociology of art tends to reduce the cultural product to an outcome of social causality. As
an alternative, this article pursues the aim of developing a cultural sociological approach …

This paper makes a renewed contribution to system theoretical thinking within the context of
Niklas Luhmann's theory. The paper suggests that in Luhmann's late writings, he made a …

Albeit the thesis on hand mainly uses an abstract sociological and system-theoretical
language or discourse, its origin lies in my personal experiences. I began my academic …

In this paper we want to give possible answers to questions such as: What is art? How is art
related to society? How does art develop? We consider art not as static, but as dynamic and …

What I choose to call'social aesthetics' is an artistic attitude focusingon the world of acts. It
also experimentswith the transgressions of various economies. The term is coined as a …

92| Afterall and changed the 'pact'that determines the art field and its roles—in the sense that
not only the artist and viewer but also the positions of the critic, historian, curator, etc. were …

This article challenges the assumption in a classical sociology of art that artworks are
created in the artist's studio as independent and self-sufficient objects. Given that artistic …

A culture of the event–biennals, triennials and more generally art festivals–has become in
the last few decades quantitatively and qualitatively prominent. Whilst 'festivals' have ancient …

This article elaborates the dialectical relationship between visual art forms and the social
structures in which they are produced, by extending Robert Witkin's taxonomy first presented …