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Art Worlds

Argues that art works are not the creation of isolated individuals but result from cooperation between different artists, suppliers of materials, art distributors, critics, and audiences, who together make up the art world.

Subject
sociology
Themes
art
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 371 pages

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