Sociologia da arte e os paradoxos do valor estético: uma discussão metodológica

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Ricardo Alexsandro de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; BR; Sociologia; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Valor Estético; Sociologia da Arte; Método; Aesthetic Value; Sociology of Art; Method; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/7331

Our work approaches one of the central issues of the sociology of art that is related to the challenge of analyzing sociologically works of art without disregarding its intrinsic value. This question leads us to approach the challenges of studying the art recognizing both its critical power (able to promote emancipation of consciences against the iron cage of modern rationality), as its reifying use (that allows and promotes social distinctions based on an aesthetic discourse of naturalization of taste). But how can we perform this operation? How could be possible to think the aesthetic value of the artwork through sociology of art? How to do this without turning it into a self-referential value and not, at the same time, underdetermining it for more general and externalist considerations? These questions led us to direct our perspective about the values problem in sociology of art to its more direct reference in the practice of sociology, the art objects analysis. Considering this, we tried to analyze the barriers and possibilities that some methodological procedures of sociology offer us in the treatment of the artistic object, recognizing it as one of the components of a triad (dynamic and historical) composed of relatively autonomous elements, namely: work of art, author and social structures. To do so, we choose the methodological programs of Howard Becker, Pierre Bourdieu and Antonio Candido as a place from where our problematizations would start, looking, however, not to do a proselytizing analysis of their methods. So, what we seek with this work is not properly to reflect on a "new method most appropriate for the sociology of art, but, on the need of a treatment of aesthetic value by the sociologists of art that consider the nuances and complexity of such a field, not leaving it as sole jurisdiction of aesthetes and academic critics of art that sometimes treat it as autotelic or without references to its ethical content.