Art from Start to Finish: Jazz, Painting, Writing, and Other Improvisations

Art from Start to Finish: Jazz, Painting, Writing, and Other Improvisations

Art from Start to Finish: Jazz, Painting, Writing, and Other Improvisations

Art from Start to Finish: Jazz, Painting, Writing, and Other Improvisations

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Overview

When is an artistic work finished? When the copyeditor makes the final correction to a manuscript, when the composer writes the last note of a symphony, or when the painter puts the last brushstroke on the canvas? Perhaps it's even later, when someone reads the work, when an ensemble performs, or when the painting is hung on a gallery wall for viewing?

Art from Start to Finish gathers a unique group of contributors from the worlds of sociology, musicology, literature, and communications—many of them practicing artists in their own right—to discuss how artists from jazz musicians to painters work: how they coordinate their efforts, how they think, how they start, and, of course, how they finish their productions.

Specialists in the arts have much to say about the works themselves, which are often neglected by scholarsi n other fields. Art from Start to Finish takes a different tack by exploring the creative process itself and its social component. Any reader who makes art or has an interest in it will value this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226040851
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 06/15/2006
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Howard S. Becker (1928-2023) made major contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. He received a PhD from the University of Chicago, where he was also an instructor in sociology and social sciences. He was professor of sociology at Northwestern University for twenty-five years and later became a professor of sociology and an adjunct professor of music at the University of Washington. He lived and worked in San Francisco and Paris.

Robert R. Faulkner is professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts and the author of Hollywood Studio Musicians and Music on Demand: Composers and Careers in the Hollywood Film Industry.


Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is professor of performance studies at New York University. She is the author of Destination Culture.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Stanley Katz

Preface by Howard S. Becker, Robert R. Faulkner, and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
 
Editor's Introduction: Art from Start to Finish by Howard S. Becker, Robert R. Faulkner, and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

1. The Work Itself
Howard S. Becker

2. Profiles of the Unfinished: Rodin's Work and the Varieties of Incompleteness
Pierre-Michel Menger

3. "How do I know I am Finnish?" The Computer, the Archive, the Literary Artist, and the Work as Social Object
Michael Joyce

4. Shedding Culture
Robert R. Faulkner

5. What Is What I Do
Scott Deveaux

6. Grasping Shona Musical Works: A Case Study of Mbira Music
Paul Berliner

7. Economic Analysis and Steps toward Completing the Work
Richard E. Caves

8. The Fragment Itself
Larry Gross

9. Object / Shadows—Notes on a Developing Art Form
Larry Kagan

10. "This is a stone from the endless beach": An Interview with Max Gimblett
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

11. Art Works
Michael D. Harris

12. Wallace Stevens's Jar
Bruce Jackson

List of Contributors
Index

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