Vera L Zolberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 191963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vera L Zolberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vera L |
| FAMILY NAME | Zolberg |
| SIGNATURE | ZOLBERG V L |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Outsider Art
The world of fine arts enacted by the absolutist monarch, Louis XIV, served as a model for many other nations by setting the hierarchy of genres, rules of art that guided the demands of patrons, the criteria of quality for at least two centuries. This cultural structure was the basis for educating aspiring artists to feed the tastes of successive generations of clients. But with political, economic, social transformations, its centrality was incr…
A cultural sociology of the arts
After a long period of relative exclusion from serious consideration by social sciences, the study of culture and the arts has become a lively sociological arena in the United States, as it had already been in much of Europe. No longer a stepchild of the serious business of sociologists, the arts are, if not central, then at least a legitimate, as opposed to a frivolous subject. This flowering has come about despite a traditional anti-aesthetic o…
La persistance de l’exclusion
La réalité à laquelle sont confrontés les artistes fait partie de ces controverses du milieu des arts qui bravent les limites de sa propre sphère pour déborder sur la société en général en captant l’attention du public. Bien qu’ils jouent un rôle central dans le processus de la création artistique, les artistes sont loin d’occuper une position de force dans la mise en scène de cette production. Au contraire, ils sont de simples pions dans le jeu …
Constructing a Sociology of the Arts
At a time when a pile of bricks is displayed in a museum, when music is composed for performance underwater, and the boundaries between popular and fine art are fluid, conventional understandings of art are strained in describing what art is, what it includes or excludes, whether and how it should be evaluated, and what importance should be assigned the arts in society. In this book, Vera Zolberg examines diverse theoretical approaches to the stu…
Arts and Politics
Marginality Triumphant? On the Asymmetry of Conflict in the Art World
International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society
Sartre for the twenty-first century
After Bourdieu
critical evaluations of his work, notably papers by Rodney Benson, 4 Rogers Brubaker, Nick Crossley, and John Myles. Indeed, it is the 1985 article by Rogers Brubaker that can truly be said to have served as one of the best introductions to Bourdieu’s thought for the American social scienti?c public. It is for this reason that we include it in the present collection. Intellectual origins & orientations We begin by providing an overview of Bourdie…
Success and failure of the sociology of culture? Bringing the arts back
This articles brings up the most recent, internal discussions among researchers in the field of the sociology of arts, more precisely the thiking of experts who participated in a forum of culture organized in 2001. In her writing, Vera Zolberg accentuates, overall, the need for sociology of art to retain both its humanistic and scientific roots. She reminds that sociology of culture has developed from the sociology of art in recent decades. Next,…
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts, entre la culture et le public
L'art conçu comme capital culturel est au centre des recherches de sociologues tels que Pierre Bourdieu et ce concept est pertinent à l'analyse des musées d'art dans la société contemporaine. À la différence du niveau d'instruction, le goût artistique se conçoit comme une affaire individuelle sans grande importance sociale. Je critique cette position à la lumière de l'étude de Bourdieu et Darbel concernant les publics des musées d'art, je compare…
Privatization
(2000). Privatization: Threat or promise for the arts and humanities? International Journal of Cultural Policy: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 9-27
The Death of Authentic Primitive Art and Other Tales of Progress
Richard Peterson and the sociology of art and literature
Culture and Power
Theorizing History – Culture, subjectivity
Outsider Art
Contested remembrance
"Museums and the Making of "Ourselves
IntroductionThe revolutionary movements which are often the basis for nation-state formation frequently assert the uniqueness of one or more ethnic groups within such states. In attempting to preserve their cultural heritage, culturally and historically significant collections and sites, that were formerly the property of elites, are transferred into public hands as a national legacy. That legacy is then made available in museums for the enrichme…
Beethoven and the Construction of Genius
Paying for Art
In the light of the transition from state-directed to market-oriented economies, the arts are faced with new challenges. Whereas market logic is usually considered to favour standardization, the conventional art logic emphasizes differentiation. Without taking a position in this debate, the article considers the fairly uncritical adoption by nation states that had previously entrusted arts patronage to public agencies of what they consider to be …
Museums as Contested Sites of Remembrance
In recent years, controversies concerning the construction of displays of historical events have turned attention to the role of these public sitings. Although virtually any location to which access is relatively unrestricted may give rise to disputes, museums in particular have become foci of these debates. Their prominence is not surprising, since they are institutions in which a nation's qualities are 'written' or 'shown.' In this chapter I tu…
Art Museums and Cultural Policies
Additional informationNotes on contributorsVera L. Zolberg Vera L. Zolberg is a senior lecturer in sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York City and is a visiting professor of sociology of the arts for the Boekmanstichting in Amsterdam. She is the author of Constructing a Sociology of the Arts, published by Cambridge University Press.
Constructing a Sociology of the Arts
Museums face to face with the millenium The view of a sociologist
There is no doubt that museums now operate in a distinctly different market to those of the past. Rottenberg [Rottenberg, B. (2002). Museums, information and the public sphere. Museum International, 54(4), 21–28] identifies the two major trends in museums in the latter years of the 20th century as being ‘the prevalence of a new market-orientated ideology that stressed the importance of revenue generation’ and ‘the introduction of new technologies…
International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society
Contested remembrance
A cultural sociology of the arts
After a long period of relative exclusion from serious consideration by social sciences, the study of culture and the arts has become a lively sociological arena in the United States, as it had already been in much of Europe. No longer a stepchild of the serious business of sociologists, the arts are, if not central, then at least a legitimate, as opposed to a frivolous subject. This flowering has come about despite a traditional anti-aesthetic o…
Paying for Art
In the light of the transition from state-directed to market-oriented economies, the arts are faced with new challenges. Whereas market logic is usually considered to favour standardization, the conventional art logic emphasizes differentiation. Without taking a position in this debate, the article considers the fairly uncritical adoption by nation states that had previously entrusted arts patronage to public agencies of what they consider to be …
Museums as Contested Sites of Remembrance
In recent years, controversies concerning the construction of displays of historical events have turned attention to the role of these public sitings. Although virtually any location to which access is relatively unrestricted may give rise to disputes, museums in particular have become foci of these debates. Their prominence is not surprising, since they are institutions in which a nation's qualities are 'written' or 'shown.' In this chapter I tu…
American Art Museums
The conflict between elitism and populism in the development of American art museums is analyzed in the light of the gap between intention and accomplishment with regard to their public education mission. In the course of examining the origins and changing character of these institutions, it is suggested that although a public mission was adduced to justify their existence and gain access to public subsidy, in fact, art museums were never really …
Privatization
(2000). Privatization: Threat or promise for the arts and humanities? International Journal of Cultural Policy: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 9-27
Elias and Dunning's Theory of Sport and Excitement
Displayed Art and Performed Music
Aesthetic innovation in symphony orchestras and art museums is strongly influenced by the fundamental structure of the art forms with which each institution is associated. Music depends on time, visual art on space; while music is ephemeral, painting and sculpture consist of concrete objects. These structural differences have implications for the organizations: costs, expectations of growth and patronage sources. Most important, just as museums a…
Sartre for the twenty-first century
Success and failure of the sociology of culture? Bringing the arts back
This articles brings up the most recent, internal discussions among researchers in the field of the sociology of arts, more precisely the thiking of experts who participated in a forum of culture organized in 2001. In her writing, Vera Zolberg accentuates, overall, the need for sociology of art to retain both its humanistic and scientific roots. She reminds that sociology of culture has developed from the sociology of art in recent decades. Next,…
La Passion Musicale
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts, entre la culture et le public
L'art conçu comme capital culturel est au centre des recherches de sociologues tels que Pierre Bourdieu et ce concept est pertinent à l'analyse des musées d'art dans la société contemporaine. À la différence du niveau d'instruction, le goût artistique se conçoit comme une affaire individuelle sans grande importance sociale. Je critique cette position à la lumière de l'étude de Bourdieu et Darbel concernant les publics des musées d'art, je compare…
Richard Peterson and the sociology of art and literature
Culture and Power
Constructing a Sociology of the Arts
Museums face to face with the millenium The view of a sociologist
There is no doubt that museums now operate in a distinctly different market to those of the past. Rottenberg [Rottenberg, B. (2002). Museums, information and the public sphere. Museum International, 54(4), 21–28] identifies the two major trends in museums in the latter years of the 20th century as being ‘the prevalence of a new market-orientated ideology that stressed the importance of revenue generation’ and ‘the introduction of new technologies…
Taste as a Social Weapon
National Goals, Social Mobility and Personal Aspirations
Espérant se transformer économiquement dans un sens socialiste, le Mali, une des nations les plus pauvres d'Afrique, a essayé d'utiliser l'institution scolaire pour former des attitudes compatibles avec l'investissement humain, à l'exclusion de l'ambition personnelle des étudiants. Le cas du Mali est comparé à celui de la Côte-d'Ivoire, un pays plus riche, non socialiste, qui demande moins du système scolaire, mais qui offre plus d'occasions de s…
The Action-Image of Society
Crises de la societe-crises de l'enseignement
National Goals, Social Mobility and Personal Aspirations
Espérant se transformer économiquement dans un sens socialiste, le Mali, une des nations les plus pauvres d'Afrique, a essayé d'utiliser l'institution scolaire pour former des attitudes compatibles avec l'investissement humain, à l'exclusion de l'ambition personnelle des étudiants. Le cas du Mali est comparé à celui de la Côte-d'Ivoire, un pays plus riche, non socialiste, qui demande moins du système scolaire, mais qui offre plus d'occasions de s…
Organizational Survival in the Performing Arts
Displayed Art and Performed Music
Aesthetic innovation in symphony orchestras and art museums is strongly influenced by the fundamental structure of the art forms with which each institution is associated. Music depends on time, visual art on space; while music is ephemeral, painting and sculpture consist of concrete objects. These structural differences have implications for the organizations: costs, expectations of growth and patronage sources. Most important, just as museums a…
The Subsidized Muse
The French Press
The Shock of the New.Robert Hughes
Le musée d'art américain
L'histoire des musées d'art américains, du XIXe siècle à nos jours, révèle une succession de modes d'organisation et de pouvoir que l'auteur met en relation avec une succession, parallèle, de projets esthétiques. Une période pré-professionnelle, caractérisée par l'emprise d'amateurs fortunés, est suivie par une période qui voit l' affermissement du pouvoir de conservateurs professionnels, dotés d'un savoir spécifique. La période contemporaine est…
All That Money Can Buy--and More
American Art Museums
The conflict between elitism and populism in the development of American art museums is analyzed in the light of the gap between intention and accomplishment with regard to their public education mission. In the course of examining the origins and changing character of these institutions, it is suggested that although a public mission was adduced to justify their existence and gain access to public subsidy, in fact, art museums were never really …
Taste as a Social Weapon
Elias and Dunning's Theory of Sport and Excitement
Course Syllabi, Resources, and Instructional Material on the Sociology of Culture
Studying Ourselves Studying the Arts
Corporate Art.Rosanne Martorella
Art Museums and Cultural Policies
Additional informationNotes on contributorsVera L. Zolberg Vera L. Zolberg is a senior lecturer in sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York City and is a visiting professor of sociology of the arts for the Boekmanstichting in Amsterdam. She is the author of Constructing a Sociology of the Arts, published by Cambridge University Press.
Constructing a Sociology of the Arts
Museums face to face with the millenium The view of a sociologist
There is no doubt that museums now operate in a distinctly different market to those of the past. Rottenberg [Rottenberg, B. (2002). Museums, information and the public sphere. Museum International, 54(4), 21–28] identifies the two major trends in museums in the latter years of the 20th century as being ‘the prevalence of a new market-orientated ideology that stressed the importance of revenue generation’ and ‘the introduction of new technologies…
La Passion Musicale
Museums as Contested Sites of Remembrance
In recent years, controversies concerning the construction of displays of historical events have turned attention to the role of these public sitings. Although virtually any location to which access is relatively unrestricted may give rise to disputes, museums in particular have become foci of these debates. Their prominence is not surprising, since they are institutions in which a nation's qualities are 'written' or 'shown.' In this chapter I tu…
Paying for Art
In the light of the transition from state-directed to market-oriented economies, the arts are faced with new challenges. Whereas market logic is usually considered to favour standardization, the conventional art logic emphasizes differentiation. Without taking a position in this debate, the article considers the fairly uncritical adoption by nation states that had previously entrusted arts patronage to public agencies of what they consider to be …
"Museums and the Making of "Ourselves
IntroductionThe revolutionary movements which are often the basis for nation-state formation frequently assert the uniqueness of one or more ethnic groups within such states. In attempting to preserve their cultural heritage, culturally and historically significant collections and sites, that were formerly the property of elites, are transferred into public hands as a national legacy. That legacy is then made available in museums for the enrichme…
Beethoven and the Construction of Genius
Theorizing History – Culture, subjectivity
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