Abstract
"Art" and "craft" are two contrasting kinds of aesthetic, work organization, and work ideology, differing in their emphases on the standards of utility, virtuoso skill, and beauty. Activities organized as craft can become art when members of established art worlds take over their media, techniques, and organizations. Conversely, through increased academicism or subordination of traditional art concerns to exigencies that arise outside an art world, activities organized as art can become craft.
Keywords
CraftHandicraftSubordination (linguistics)BeautyWork (physics)Visual artsIdeologyThe artsAestheticsArtSociologyPolitical sciencePoliticsEngineeringLawPhilosophy
Related Publications
Craft Labor and Mechanization in Nineteenth-Century American Canning
The development of new machinery in nineteenth-century American canning followed two paths. Automative, labor-saving devices were developed to replace labor in unskilled tasks w...
InterViews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing
List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables Preface to the Third Edition Acknowledgments About the Author Introduction 1. Introduction to Interview Research Conversation as Research Thre...
Handbook of Marine Craft Hydrodynamics and Motion Control
Technical and Research Symposium Society of Naval Architects and Marine EngineersMcGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and TechnologyJane's High-speed Marine Craft and Air Cushion...
Quality of evidence
Verbeek and his co-authors (1) recently indicated that rapid searches of biomedical databases can provide useful support for clinical decisions in occupational health. Subsequen...
Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community
BOWLING ALONE warns Americans that their stock of social capital, the very fabric of their connections with each other, has been accelerating down. Putnam describes the resultin...
Publication Info
- Year
- 1978
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 83
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 862-889
- Citations
- 211
- Access
- Closed
External Links
Social Impact
Altmetric
PlumX Metrics
Social media, news, blog, policy document mentions
Citation Metrics
211
OpenAlex
Cite This
Howard S. Becker
(1978).
Arts and Crafts.
American Journal of Sociology
, 83
(4)
, 862-889.
https://doi.org/10.1086/226635
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1086/226635