...and events that command astronomical prices. I have used the term in a more technical way, to denote the network of people whose cooperative activity,...conventional means of doing things, produces the kind of art works that art world is noted for. This tautological definition mirrors the analysis, which is less...

...Becker defines an art world as a production system comprised of producers, distributors, and consumers "whose cooperative activity, organized via their joint...conventional means of doing things, produces the kind of art works that art world is noted for." (Becker (982:x) Art world participants arrange their cooperative...

...in understanding the worlds of independent producers and PBS programmers. He defines an art world as "the network of people whose cooperative activity, organized via their joint knowledge of the conventional means of doing things, produces the kind of art works that the art world is noted...

...Art world denotes 'the network of people whose cooperative activity, organized through the medium of their joint knowledge of conventional means of doing things, produces the kind of art works that art world is noted for' (Becker, 1982: x). Works of art are not the creations of artists...

...Becker would call the "art world" of Western art music (Becker 1982). Becker defines an art world as "the network of people whose cooperative activity,...conventional means of doing things, produces the kind of art works that art world is noted for" (Becker 1982: x). The major thrust of Becker's study is to call...

...art.2 By extension, he sees art worlds as manifestations of consensual, normative activity, comprising "the network of people whose cooperative activity,...conventional means of doing things, produces the kind of art works that [that] art world is noted for."3 Correlatively, change entails regroupings of the art world...

...Working out of the symbolic-interactionist tradition. Howard Becker uses the term "art world" "to denote the network of people whose cooperative activity....conventional means of doing things. produces the kind of artwork that the art world is noted for" (1982. p. x). Recall the stereotype of the lone struggling...

...Becker draws our attention to the weblike configuration of an art world, using the term to "denote a network of people whose cooperative activity, organized...conventional means of doing things, produces the kind of art works that the art world is noted for." Most important for our purposes, however, may be his concern...

...Howard S. Becker or philosopher Arthur C. Danto respectively. Becker explains his term art worlds as: "The network of people whose cooperative activity,...conventional means of doing things, produces the kind of art work that the art world is noted for."9 And while I agree with Becker that there are multiple, overlapping...

...Experimental Cinema In his 1982 book, Art Worlds, sociologist Howard Becker defined an "art world" as a "network of people whose cooperative activity, organized...knowledge of conventional means of doing things, produces [a popularly recognized] kind of art work."' Becker explored a sociology of art that de-emphasized...