Art cannot be studied apart from other social activities.
Evidence
Accordingly, there is no way in which the communication of descriptions, understood in this way, can be set aside and compared externally with other things. “If the art is part of society, there is no solid whole, outside it, to which, by the form of our question, we concede priority. The art is there, as an activity, with the production, the trading, the politics, the raising of families. To study the relations adequately we must study them actively, seeing all activities as particular and contemporary forms of human energy.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 184
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Society and literary culture can only be studied together (similarity 0.83)
- Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature (similarity 0.79)
- Cultural Studies must remain permanently open-ended and responsive to external influences (similarity 0.79)
- Art works expose social contradictions through their internal formal tensions (similarity 0.79)
- Culture is the interrelation of all social practices, not one practice. (similarity 0.79)
- Even the swastika has no fixed cultural meaning (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Culture is the interrelation of all social practices, not one practice.
#expands(0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 185 - Society and literary culture can only be studied together
#expands(0.70) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 395 - This carving had no practical function, emphasizing art’s intrinsic value.
#contradicts(0.60) — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 111 - Cultural meanings are unstable and shift with the social field
#expands(0.60) - Without a concept of ideology, culture’s role in reproducing production cannot be grasped.
#expands(0.55) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 201