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Analyzing Art Works As a Way to Social Knowledge
Analyzing Art Works As a Way to Social Knowledge
Monday, 11 July 2016: 14:15-15:45
Location: Hörsaal 14 (Juridicum)
RC37 Sociology of Arts (host committee) Language: English
This session aims to evaluate the state of art of research in sociology and social sciences that have their principal focus in the analyses of art works as a way to achieve social knowledge about societies or social groups.
It intends to discuss sociological possibilities and strategies in the analyses of art works in their epistemological, methodological or analytical problems and approaches, in order to problematize art works as an important social phenomena that alludes to the observer various possibilities of meaning constitution and interpretation about reality and social organization, social groups and their relational systems of values and social structuration.
In this way, it aims to compare differentially these possible perspectives related to art works in their various supports, from the visual arts like painting, sculpture, video art to films and photographs in order to discuss their epistemological, methodological or analytical proximities or discrepancies in researches in the social sciences.
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