The Social Limits of Art

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Acknowledgments	p. v
Introduction	p. 1
Art, Culture, and Professionalism	p. 7
Art as a Socially Constrained Pursuit	p. 19
Technique, Significant Experience, Abstraction	p. 33
The Playing Out of Artistic Styles	p. 50
The Professionalization of Art: Isolation and Technology	p. 63
The Professionalization of Art: The Taught Tradition	p. 76
Critics, Merchants, Consumers, Bureaucrats	p. 86
Art and the Cultural System: The Social and Cultural Dynamics of P. A. Sorokin	p. 108
Art and the Cultural System: F. S. C. Northrop's The Meeting of East and West, Beginning, the Spirit of the West	p. 120
Art and the Cultural System: F. S. C. Northrop's The Meeting of East and West, Conclusion, the Spirit of the East	p. 132
The Cultural Functions of the Artist: Kroeber's Configurations of Culture Growth	p. 149
A Summing Up	p. 173
Appendix	p. 187
General: Note On Books On The Sociology of Art	p. 191
Index	p. 193
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