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Art as a Social System

Paperback • 2000 • English

Art as a Social System

By Niklas Luhmann

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About the book

This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century. It not only represents an important intellectual step in discussions of art-in its rigor and in its having refreshingly set itself the task of creating a set of distinctions for determining what counts as art that could be valid for those creating as well as those receiving art works-but it also represents an important advance in systems theory.Returning to...Show more

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ISBN

9780804739078

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Art as a Social System

Format

Paperback

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