Entitled
Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3182502 |
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| Authors | Jennifer M Black (Misericordia University, Dallas, Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 723-724 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts, Jennifer C Lena, 2019 |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaaa354 |
| OpenAlex | W3113129455 |
| Language | EN |
In Entitled the sociologist Jennifer C. Lena examines the adoption of low-art forms into the high-art canon in the twentieth-century United States. Archival research from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, sociological surveys, and a variety of published sources and interviews inform this study. Lena argues that elite (often white) patrons broadened aesthetic tastes in the twentieth century through their privileged access to the cultures of others. Seven chapters outline the expansion of American art forms from the 1820s through the early 2000s. This is primarily a history of institutional change, rather than of consumption or aesthetics. Lena's analysis centers on a detailed study of Nelson Rockefeller's Museum of Primitive Art (Mpa), from 1940 to 1982. “Reputational entrepreneurs” such as Rockefeller asserted the value of their collections by seeking institutional sponsorship, making large donations, and stimulating a market for primitive art (p. 47). Through the Mpa, critics
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Consumption (sociology · Elite · Performance art · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · The arts · Value (mathematics · Variety (cybernetics · Visual art of the United States · Visual arts · White (mutation · Art History and Market Analysis · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · History · Law
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Social Exclusion in the Arts
Aesthetic Injustice
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In the dark
Innovative and artistic
What are the temporal dynamics of taste
Uneven and combined consecration
Unliterary History
The Geo-Ecological Turn in Sociology and its Implications for the Sociology of the Arts
Workers and Work in the Arts
Cultural consumption and Covid-19
Investing the Time
Organizations and the structure of culture
Access to arts consumption
Mobile trust regimes
The social positions of taste between and within music genres
Unequal entanglements
Aesthetic obligations
Definitely (not) belonging to culture
Power, precarity and diversity in the field of publicly funded arts and culture
Structural predictors of private museum founding
Aesthetic Snobbery
From Aristocratic to Ordinary
Tokenism and Its Long-Term Consequences
Cultural Tariffing
| Highly cited | No |
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