ABSTRACT

This special issue brings together ethnographic scholarship to explore the interlinking of diverse personal, social and larger institutional forms in and through which artistic value emerges. Rather than being inherent in the formal features of art objects or merely a discursive construct, value as craft signifies an arena in which beliefs, ideologies, and histories interweave with art practices, events, and materialities. The articles included in this issue, then, highlight both the constructed and performative aspects of artistic values through a common focus on ethnography and a shared emphasis on temporality, practice, and institutional forms. Accordingly, art is a process both crafted – composed of judgements and social interaction – and crafting – able to individually or collectively mobilise and enable desiring investments in its capacity as art. The interdisciplinary effort at hand retains the sociological ethos and political implications of social constructionism, while looking at how acts of valuation enable affective, agential and aesthetic responses.

摘要

本期专刊汇集了民族志学研究人员，探讨了各种个人，社会和更大的制度形式之间的相互联系，并由此产生了艺术价值。价值不是手工艺品的形式特征所固有的，或者仅仅是话语结构的固有特征，而是作为一种工艺的价值象征着一个信念，意识形态和历史与艺术实践，事件和物质交织在一起的领域。然后，本期中的文章通过共同关注人种志并共同强调时间性，实践和制度形式，突出了艺术价值的建构和表现方面。因此，艺术是一个既由判断力和社会互动组成的过程，又是能够个体或集体动员并希望以其艺术能力进行投资的过程。手头的跨学科工作保留了社会建构主义的社会学精神和政治含义，同时着眼于估价行为如何实现情感，代理和审美反应。