Gary Alan Fine

Talking Art

The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gary Fine opens up the contemporary art practice MFA and finds that it's mostly about theorizing and arguing about art, and very little about actually making it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780226560212
• ISBN-10: 022656021X
• Artikelnr.: 50990266

Autorenporträt

Gary Alan Fine (Ph.D., Harvard University, Social Psychology, 1976) is the James E. Johnson Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He is interested in understanding controversial reputations and problematic collective memories of figures. His current research involves shifting reputations and political positions of Southern segregationist politics and the examination of ruptures in political alliances. He is the co-author of Symbols, Selves, and Social Reality (Oxford, 2013) and the author of Authors of the Storm: Meteorology and the Culture of Prediction (Chicago, 2010) and Everyday Genius: Self-Taught (Chicago, 2004). Several of his twenty books have received disciplinary awards in sociology and in folklore.