01665nam a2200121 4500008004100000245001500041210001500056260006500071300000800136520130600144100002301450856007001473 1982 eng d00aArt Worlds0 aArt Worlds aBerkley, Los Angeles, LondonbUniversity of California Press a3923 a

Works of art are produced by cooperation. The creating artist works with a network of suppliers of materials, distributors of art works, fellow' artists, and with critics, theorists, and audiences. These contributing individuals and organiza­ tions together constitute an art world. And the very existence of this art world gives artists the opportunity and means to make art. How is this cooperation possible? In what w'ays do works of art show the effects of having been made collectively?

In this most unusual book, noted sociologist Howard Becker draws examples from music, drama, dance, literature, film, and the visual arts. Among his findings is that much work even­ tually recognized as art has its beginnings apart from the cooperative nurturing of an art world. He cites such outsiders as composer Charles Ives, sculptor Simon Rodia, and quiltmakers as artists whose work did not receive recognition until a suitable art world existed to foster them.

Sociologists, critics and analysts of the several arts, and working artists will find herein a clari­ fication of the role of well-know n observations about the cooperative character of art work. The analysis clarifies problems in aesthetics and crit­icism and provides a model for the analysis of other social worlds

1 aBecker, Howard, S. uhttp://archiverlepresent.org/reference-bibliographique/art-worlds