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Researching Arts and Culture:
An Intellectual JourneyDr Marta Herrero
University of Plymouth UK
Sociology, arts and culture METHODOLOGIES
Legitimacy within the discipline of sociology
Impact and relationship to theories
Personal/Intellectual journey
Developing a research agenda: arts and culture…a journey
Art: Uncomfortable??
The journey begins…relationship with
theories APPLYING THEORIES,
CONCEPTS
Museums and art collections
Modern art collecting in Ireland, Dublin
Cultural value of art
Disciplinary legitimacy: the arts
PhD upgrade
Irish Museum of Modern Art
LEGITIMATING RESEARCH
Pierre Bourdieu
CAPITALS: FORMATION
Study of cultural fields: Museums: ‘Modern art’
Collecting policies
Display practices
Methods
Interviews: curators, museum directors, civil servants, board members
Analysis of exhbition displays
Historical background: archival research
Theories: Pierre Bourdieu
The social construction of art values
The market for symbolic goods
Social actors, capitals and cultural fields
Art object: cultural and symbolic capital
Social actors: cultural, economic, symbolic capitals
Challenge The arts economy: art market
Which theories, concepts…
Sociology of the arts + Sociology of Economy
Economic sociology: a sociological approach to the arts economy?
Cultural sociology: conceptualise culture?
‘Market’ as a concept?
Shaping up a research agenda:
‘A toolbox...’
Art market: Dublin-London
Economic, instrumental value: profit
Nationality, cultural value: tastes, preferences of buyers and vendors
Selling in London: helping differentiate ‘Irish art’ vs. ‘British art’
Selling in Dublin: patriotism, keeping art within national boundaries
Similarities
‘Irish art’ repository of national value
Cultural Sociology, 2011
Social Studies of Finance
and Markets Actor network theory
Challenge ‘the social’:
actor networks
Network interactions: humans, technological devices, institutions
The ‘economy’
‘Calculation tools’
Making the arts economy
Art value creation and calculation tools: the art catalogue
Bourdieu: cultural, symbolic capital
Adding to human agency: objects
Catalogue as a work of art: aesthetics
Journal of Cultural Economy, 2010
Performing calculation in the art market
THE CULTURAL: actors-technologies
Reassessing Bourdieu: capital creation as calculation
Artworks: passive, acted upon by human agents
Site of meaning production: actors, and market devices(instruments, technologies) catalogues, exhibition media, frames…
Renewal: setting up agendasCulture, markets and emotions
Artistic markets/non artistic markets
Emotions and the arts economy
Researching emotions...
Emotions and Rituals
Randal Collins
Group rituals
Body presence and collective symbol
Emotional energy
Emotions and rituals in the art market
AIMS
Emotions as a feature of economic behaviour
Centrality of the art object
Role of art institutions: increasing/decreasing emotional energy
Type of art for sale
Thesis Eleven, 2010
Rituals, emotions and art
RECYCLING DATA
Art as a cultural + emotional object
Repository of emotions
Mediates emotions of buyers
Moulin (1967) The French Art Market, art collecting as a passion …
Advantages:
Centrality of the art object
More encompassing view of market behavior
Centrality of emotions in markets: challenges Economic behaviour: prominence of economics
Initial reaction to my research! Positive and negative
How to research emotions? How to distinguish emotions from self-interested behaviour?
Its all self-interested behaviour
Influence of economic paradigms,
Arts, Culture and Sociology: challenges
LEGITIMACY: Centrality of arts to sociology, and to economic processes
SETTING RESEARCH AGENDAS
Developing, advancing existing theories
Challenges: Opening up inter-disciplinarity: a dialogue sociology & economics+ emotions?
REVISIONING METHODS: Formulating questions, accessing interviewees, confidentiality...
ADVANTAGES: Pushing the boundaries of sociological research to incorporate and combine previously unexplored subject areas
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