TY - BOOK AU - Becker, Howard Saul. AU - Howard S. Becker TI - Art Worlds,: : Updated and Expanded, 25th Anniversary Edition SN - 9780520256361 U1 - 700.103 BEC PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - : University of California Press, KW - Arts and society KW - Popular culture KW - Psychological aspects N2 - Serves as a sociological examination of art which explores the cooperative network of suppliers, performers, dealers, critics, and consumers who - along with the artist - 'produce' a work of art. This book looks at the conventions essential to this operation and, prospectively, at the extent to which art is shaped by this collective activity ER -