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Book SynopsisThe author presents an in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitan.
Trade Review"A critical guide for new directions in the sociology of the arts."
---Amanda Koontz, Contemporary Sociology"Entitled tackles a fascinating new dimension, exploring how the definition of art in the United States has broadened over time while remaining unmistakably elite. . . . [A] powerful theory of artistic legitimation that brings us to a much deeper understanding of art in the United States."
---Raquel Jimenez, Contexts Magazine"
Entitled [is] an authoritative, eye-opening, and astonishingly detailed look at the power struggle over the boundaries of art, as conducted over approximately the last two centuries of American cultural life."
---C. Thi Nguyen, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism"The book is full of startling nuggets."
---Josephine Livingstone, Times Literary Supplement"[
Entitled] traces the almost 200-year-old story of how the objects and performances that educated Americans today consider art came to be 'sacralized' as art. Weaving together historical research with theoretical insights from the sociology of culture, Entitled narrates the transformation in American elite tastes from quasi-European highbrow snobs to omnivorous cosmopolitans"
---Sergio Cabrera, Social Forces
