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White, Harrison Colyar was born on March 21, 1930 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
( In the nineteenth century, the Académie des Beaux Arts,...)
In the nineteenth century, the Académie des Beaux Arts, and institution of central importance to the artistic life of France for over two hundred years, yielded much of its power to the present system of art distribution, which is dependent upon critics, dealers, and small exhibitions. In Canvases and Careers, Harrison and Cynthia White examine in scrupulous and fascinating detail how and why this shift occurred. Assimilating a wide range of historical and sociological data, the authors argue convincingly that the Academy, by neglecting to address the social and economic conditions of its time, undermined its own ability to maintain authority and control. Originally published in 1965, this ground-breaking work is a classic piece of empirical research in the sociology of art. In this edition, Harrison C. White's new Foreword compares the marketing approaches of two contemporary painters, while Cynthia A. White's new Afterword reviews recent scholarship in the field.
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(A look at the production and distribution of art, drawing...)
A look at the production and distribution of art, drawing on fields as disparate as European portraiture and American rock and roll. The development and maintenance of "art worlds", the escapist element of art and its manipulations, the origins of new styles, are all laid bare in a book that offers a vision of expression and artistic production embedded in a world of complex social networks.
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Appendices By Andre Weil And Robert R. Bush. Prentice Hall Series In Mathematical Analysis Of Social Behavior.
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( In proposing a comprehensive network theory that cuts a...)
In proposing a comprehensive network theory that cuts across the range of social sciences, Harrison White rejects conventional hierarchical models and focuses instead on efforts of control in a social structure described as a tangle of locked-in practices. He argues that the widely held conceptions of person and goal grounded in traditional political economy do not provide a basis for social theory that is either coherent or consistent with current developments in psychology and anthropology. White replaces person with identity, which, in a distinctively human sense, emerges from frictions and social noise across different levels and disciplines in networks. Likewise he reshapes the notion of goals, maintaining that they merely inhabit sets of stories used to explain agency, and that action itself comes through selective strategies to break through formal organization. As his main empirical basis, White uses case studies covering a wide range of topics, including tribal religions, changing rhetorics of industrial administration and the premodern Church, practices of State-building, and change of style in popular music. His analyses draw from English social anthropology, natural science, French rhetorics, mathematics, German industrial history, control engineering, and American pragmatism.
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White, Harrison Colyar was born on March 21, 1930 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Bachelor of Science in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, Princeton University, 1960.
Operations analyst, operations research office, Johns Hopkins University, 1955-1956; assistant professor industrial administration and sociology, Graduate School Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon U., 1957-1959; assistant professor sociology, University of Chicago, 1959-1963; associate professor, social relations department, Harvard University, 1963-1968; acting chair, social relations department, Harvard University, 1970; visiting professor, department sociology, U. Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 1973-1974; chair, department spciology, Harvard University, 1975-1978; professor sociology, Harvard University, 1968-1986; head and professor, department sociology, U. Arizona, 1986-1988; Eller professor of management and policy,, College Business & Public Administration, U. Arizona, 1986-1988; director, Center for the Social Studies, Colunbia U., since 1988; professor, department sociology, Columbia University, since 1988; chair, department sociology, Columbia University, since 1990; Giddings professor of sociology, Columbia University, since 1992.
( In the nineteenth century, the Académie des Beaux Arts,...)
( In proposing a comprehensive network theory that cuts a...)
(A look at the production and distribution of art, drawing...)
(Appendices By Andre Weil And Robert R. Bush. Prentice Hal...)
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Member National Academy of Sciences, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Association Advancement Of Science, Sociological Research Association (board member since 1992), American Sociological Association.