Did my last communique get lost in cyberspace? The point was that William's statement of the "Institutional Theory" is incomplete --(and Geoff Crealock noticed the same as he remarked that "If you insist that any two individuals will have somewhat varying interpretations/understandings of either term [theory and art], I know of no way to deny your thesis.")
The Institutional theory, as summarized by Dr. Irvine, is not just that art is identified by "a situation defined by many voices and many interests all vying for power."--- it's also that art is un-identifiable outside that situation. That's the non-obvious, controversial claim that divorces Art from Aesthetics, and then re-marries it to Sociology. ____________________________________________________________ Click here to find a massage therapy school near you. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/Ioyw6ijlUZt7cWAsIO2oMK23Xp2o75 wxpRYDXm6nB6I0ro6ztBBVkw/
