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Researching Arts and Culture:
An Intellectual JourneyDr Marta Herrero
University of Plymouth UK
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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
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Art: Uncomfortable??
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The journey begins…relationship with
theories APPLYING THEORIES,
CONCEPTS
Museums and art collections
Modern art collecting in Ireland, Dublin
Cultural value of art
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Disciplinary legitimacy: the arts
PhD upgrade
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Irish Museum of Modern Art
LEGITIMATING RESEARCH
Pierre Bourdieu
CAPITALS: FORMATION
Study of cultural fields: Museums: ‘Modern art’
Collecting policies
Display practices
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Methods
Interviews: curators, museum directors, civil servants, board members
Analysis of exhbition displays
Historical background: archival research
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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
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Challenge The arts economy: art market
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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?
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Shaping up a research agenda:
‘A toolbox...’
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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
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Social Studies of Finance
and Markets Actor network theory
Challenge ‘the social’:
actor networks
Network interactions: humans, technological devices, institutions
The ‘economy’
‘Calculation tools’
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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
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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…
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Renewal: setting up agendasCulture, markets and emotions
Artistic markets/non artistic markets
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Emotions and the arts economy
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Researching emotions...
Emotions and Rituals
Randal Collins
Group rituals
Body presence and collective symbol
Emotional energy
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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
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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
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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,
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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