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Artists’ discourses in the legitimation of visual art: an analysis of discursive and aesthetic regimes in Flanders between 1965 and 2015
Code
01D38915
Duration
01 October 2015 → 11 January 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Applied sociology
    • Policy and administration
    • Social psychology
    • Social stratification
    • Social theory and sociological methods
    • Sociology of life course, family and health
    • Other sociology
    • Other sociology
    • Other anthropology
Keywords
culture production of art sociology of art legitimation discourses
 
Project description
 

Using the state subsidy-archive for visual arts, this study focuses on how visual artists in Flanders have legitimated their artistic work between 1965-2015. The main objective is to provide a historical sociological analysis of how discourses about art (and its relation to society) evolved during this period characterized by significant macro-sociological changes.