Review of Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society.

1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 820-820
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Art And Society

Bottles of Art, Works of Alcohol

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-70
Author(s):  
Jim Drobnick
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Art And Society

Alcohol has gained a notable prominence in contemporary art, particularly in artists’ bars and other convivial situations at biennials and art fairs. What happens, though, when an artwork features alcohol that cannot or is not meant to be drunk? If the point of drink in contemporary art involves engaging spectators in sensorial, embodied encounters, what remains of the specialness of alcohol when it stays in the bottle? This article examines artists’ multiples and distillation projects where drinking is teasingly possible but downplayed. In these works, partaking is less important than the inebriating affect, in which drunkenness is experienced at a remove, and so infuses the imagination to instigate thought beyond the act of drinking. Even when contained, the intoxicating potential of alcohol has the ability to disrupt norms and aesthetic conventions, as well as to make compelling comments on art and society.

Continuity in Discontinuity: The Recurrent Motif of Cultural Autonomy in the Development of Czech Sociology of Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 174997552199963
Author(s):  
Marek Skovajsa
Keyword(s):  
Critical Mass ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Relative Autonomy ◽  
Cultural Autonomy ◽  
Heterogeneous Landscape ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Prague School ◽  
Art And Society ◽  
Recurrent Motif

This article analyses the development of the sociology of culture in Czechia. Its focus is on the sociology of the arts and cultural sociology, which, it is argued, are connected through the notion of the relative autonomy of cultural structures. While the Czech sociology of culture may have been rendered less dynamic by the lack of a critical mass of sociologists specialising in this area and by the country’s frequent political upheavals and its isolation from the international circulation of ideas, it has experienced moments of considerable vitality. Three periods in the development of the field are identified here, each of them marked by a movement toward a stronger and more sociologically adequate conceptualisation of cultural autonomy: (1) from the diffuse culturalism of the field’s founding figures to the functionalist theory of the interwar sociologist Inocenc Arnošt Bláha, whose view of the relationship between art and society was influenced by the work of the Prague School of Structuralism; (2) from the cultural reductionism of Marxist-Leninist theory after 1948 to the eclectic sociology of culture and the arts of the late socialist period; (3) from the demise of this transitional form of a sociology of culture in the 1990s to the increasingly internationalised but also heterogeneous landscape of the 2010s, which is constituted by a semi-institutionalised centre of cultural sociology at Brno and small groups or individuals in Prague and other academic locales. The thread of continuity in an otherwise discontinuous historical development is found in the recurrent motif of the relative autonomy of culture which the Czech sociology of culture absorbed through its exposure to art and literary theory.

Form, Style, Tradition: Reflections on Japanese Art and Society.

1973 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
D. B. Waterhouse ◽  
Shuichi Kato ◽  
John Bester
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Art ◽  
Art And Society

Japonisme and Femininity: A Study of Japanese Dress in British and French Art and Society, c. 1860–c. 1899

Costume ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Marie Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Substantial Evidence ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
French Art ◽  
Art And Society

Artworks of the second half of the nineteenth century offer substantial evidence of the differing ways in which the 'Japanese craze' of this period was disseminated in dress. A discussion of the availability of garments in Paris and London, and the evidence for ownership of garments, takes place in this article. This study shows that Whistler was reflecting and informing the usage of Japanese attire by aesthetic women such as Ellen Terry. These garments offered a freer, looser, artistic style. The immense popularity of Japanese accessories is explored, as is the kimono's adaptation as a dressing gown. Alfred Stevens' artworks reflect this usage in France during the 1870s and 1880s. An examination of fancy dress books provides evidence of a growing familiarity with Japanese dress towards the end of the nineteenth century. This article is informed by nineteenth-century writings on Japan, fancy dress books, Liberty's catalogues, photographs and surviving garments.

Art and Society in Africa

1983 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
Jean M. Borgatti ◽  
Robert Brain
Keyword(s):  
Art And Society

Mirrors in Art and Society

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Daniel De Puma
Keyword(s):  
Art And Society
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