Hiccups… dear hiccups… we all are well acquainted to them… to those whose sudden presence embraces us so indelicately that our breath dissipate in a matter of seconds to then return with a bit of resentment for having lost its rhythm. Pretty much that’s what a setback is. There, however, resentment is not what resolves the action… but the realization of needing to take another path.
Remember the article we were to investigate and possibly float on while relishing in whatever illuminating factor we were hoping to find regarding the terminology, that by the way really took my attention, of “amphibious artist”? Well, it turned out that in order to have access to “Mainstreaming Innovation in Art Worlds: Cooperative links, conventions and amphibious artists”, I needed to be an individual subscriber or purchase “short term access” ($36 dollars for 24 hours). We can get a clue of what this is though, from its surface… keeping in mind however that there’s a whole block of ice underneath it.
The tip of the iceberg (Abstract) says as follows:
We extend Becker’s conception of art worlds to articulate the boundaries which enable and constrain innovation in art. Synthesizing network and institutional approaches to art innovation, we argue that new conventions develop through a cooperative process involving mainstreamers, mavericks, outsiders, and novices – whose interactions produce novel ways of linking artists to those who consume their products. We emphasize the role of amphibious artists in bridging mainstream and maverick social types, thereby reducing the distance between ‘outside’ and ‘inside’, and crossing the more permeable boundaries separating them. We illustrate the framework with a case of innovation in the film art world: the mainstreaming of American independent cinema.
with its H2O molecules of ice (keywords) of:
art worlds, innovation, institutional theory, networks, US independent cinema.
First of all… who is Becker? and what is his perception in regards to the art and how society encapsulates it?
Howard S. Becker is an educated individual well versed in the domain of sociology. After reading quick facts in Wikipedia I realized I wanted to get a more vivid image of himself. For a more realistic perception of mine. Realistic in the sense that whatever I’ll be learning from him oughts to be from, without undervaluing Wikipedia, a more authentic source like an interview. Because well there is where the personage who one is investigating gets to speak for him or herself. This allows for the listener or in this case reader to get a direct approach to the individual.
Feeling our feet kind of wet already? If you haven’t notice I think it would be a good idea to start rolling up your pants because we’re already in the water. You see, we all see. We all see and not often think. As we see we might think, but to think is not really what we see ourselves doing. Do we?
I do. That’s why I chose to learn more about Howie throughout an interview of his. For colors to be more intense, concentrated, one oughts to choose not to dissolve them.
It is a very peculiar color of Howard indeed. Well, the one I see… to be more precise and in reality just. What is just is just what it is: interpretation… the recognition of it mainly.
Beneficially, in the interview we learned that Howard (who reveals how he’s always been called Howie) commented on “Art of Worlds”. His colors on the matter, I then found in the brief outline pertaining to his book sold through amazon.com, that he portrays art as a collective activity due to its method of existing: its creation, its marketing, its publicity, its acceptance or not. A word stood out from what was interchanged between Becker and Harvey Molotch: the interviewer labels Becker’s work as “a kind of epistemological map of the different ways people can know about and then represent society”. —Epistemology is the theory of knowledge. Further more it is a discipline that studies how the knowledge of science is generated and validated.—Becker agrees to that and in fact reveals his regard on the current take on sociology, which is not in a positive light. For he sees there’s something vaguer and larger than what is taught in “academic sociology”. No wonder why he was consider part of the second Chicago School of Sociology that rose after WWII, whose domain is constantly seeking innovation. Basically, Becker understands that current sociology contains academic barriers. Thank you, Becker.
It’s getting cold. Now we can see a potential correlation in Becker’s mention on “Mainstreaming Innovation in Art Worlds: Cooperative links, conventions and amphibious artists”.
Sociology constructs a platform to be studied, which then is what sociology becomes. Would this reasoning be presented in the article we would read for $36 dollars? Irregardless, we’ve found and evince that there is indeed boundaries set since the very beginning when discussing genre and its trajectory in the film industry as concluded in the last post.
Thus, for academic purposes the genre of our Film Opening oughts to be established... considering conventionalities of our time.
So in the end we now realize… hiccups are just a reminder that we are breathing. That we are here... while we’re thinking, perceiving.
Citations:
Citations:
G. Patriotta, P.M. Hirsch, SAGE Journals: Organization Studies. 2016, February 5. “Mainstreaming Innovation in Art Worlds: Cooperative links, conventions and amphibious artists”. Retrieved on March 11, 2016, from: http://oss.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/02/03/0170840615622062.abstract
Wikipedia. 2016, March 9. Howard S. Becker. Retrieved on March 13, 2016 from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_S._Becker
Howard S. Becker, Howie’s homepage. “Howard S. Becker
Interviewed by Harvey Molotch”. Public Culture. 2012. Duke University Press. Retrieved on March 13, 2016, from: http://howardsbecker.com/articles/HSB%20interview%20with%20HM.pdf
Howard S. Becker, Amazon.com, Inc. Art Worlds 25th Anniversary edition, Updated and Expanded Edition. Retrieved on March 14, 2016, from http://www.amazon.com/Art-Worlds-Howard-S-Becker/dp/0520256360
Definicion.de 2008-2016. Wordpress. Retrieved on March 14, 2016, from: http://definicion.de/epistemologia/
