Talking to Artists
In-depth Interviews, Cultural Objects, and a Sociology of Art (History) Methodology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2387243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Saara Liinamaa (0000-0001-7499-2477, University of Guelph, ON, Canada) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-37 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10778004241298920 |
| OpenAlex | W4405727297 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 60 |
A key dilemma for researchers analyzing in-depth interviews is how to sensitively and responsibly interpret and incorporate the layers of meaning present in any one interview. References to cultural objects during interviews are moments that invite interpretive multiplicity. This article examines the presence of cultural objects within interview research as a methodological issue. Drawing on semi-structured interviews conducted with artists and designers, this article approaches references to artworks during interviews as more than just evidence of cultural capital, status, and boundary-making. Interview participants talked about art because it was meaningful to them and provided another language for expressing complicated ideas about their artistic identities and careers. To better access this aesthetic and symbolic content within the analysis of interview themes, this article sketches out a sociology of art (history) methodology that illustrates how to blend sociological and art historical interpretation
Aesthetics · Art · Cultural capital · Dilemma · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Participant observation · Qualitative research · Semi-structured interview · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of culture · Symbolic capital · Visual arts · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Under the Cover
Saving the Modern Soul
Creativity
The Equity Myth
Talk of Love
The Sage Handbook of Interview Research
Music in Everyday Life
Social Works
Reduced to curtain twitchers? Age, ageism and the careers of four women actors
What good are interviews for thinking about culture? Demystifying interpretive analysis
Is interviewing compatible with the dual-process model of culture
Innovation and creativity in creative industries
Art to come
Have Schemas Been Good To Think With
Schemas, Interactions, and Objects in Meaning‐Making 1
Inside the Critics’ Circle
Restabilizing attachment to cultural objects. Aesthetics, emotions and biography
Improving Cultural Analysis
Scents and Sensibility
Life's a beach but you're an ant, and other unwelcome news for the sociology of culture
Methodological Pluralism and the Possibilities and Limits of Interviewing
Death of the Artist
Decolonizing Methodologies
Scandal and the Work of Art
Trends in Contemporary Art Discourse
If the People Like It, It Must Be Good
Art Words and Art Worlds
The `New Sociology of Art
The Intersection of Cultural Context and Research Encounter
Establishing Cultural Integrity in Qualitative Research
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews
A qualitative fallacy
How was it for you? The Interview Society and the irresistible rise of the (poorly analyzed) interview
The power dance in the research interview
A Theory of Resonance
Community Sense
Iconic Experience in Art and Life
Azul y Oro
How and Why Interviews Work
Talk Is Cheap
Exploring Participant-centred Reflexivity in the Research Interview
Cultural Objects, Material Culture, and Materiality
The Sound of Stigmatization
Cultural Objects as Objects
Motivation and Justification
Democracy versus Distinction
Preserving the unpreservable
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |