The Social Production of Art Today: Revisiting Janet Wolff

The Bauman Institute teamed up with the British Sociological Assocation (BSA) Sociology of the Arts Study Group and the journal Cultural Sociology to host a symposium on Janet Wolff's ‘The Social Production of Art'. 

In edition to revisiting this seminal work by Janet Wolff, a longtime friend of the Bauman Institute, the symposium showcased contemporary work in the sociology of the arts, particularly foregrounding work  informed by theories and intellectual histories other than the dominant traditions that orient the subfield (Bourdieu, Becker), or which complicate their dominance.

Programme

Rethinking the canons in the sociology of the arts; 

Speakers: David Inglis, Nick Crossley, Austin Harrington, Laura Harris (Chair: Maria Rovisco)

Contemporary approaches to the social production of art;

Speakers: Lisa McCormick, Linzhi Zhang, Daniela Fazio Vargas, Abigail Webster (Chair: Victoria Alexander)

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