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a new and provocative understanding emerges of the troubled relationship between technology

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Art Worlds, 25th Anniversary Edition Transport technology a new and provocative understandingThis classic sociological examination of art as collective action explores the cooperative network of suppliers, performers, dealers, critics, and consumers who along with the artist "produce" a work of art. Howard S. Becker looks at the conventions essential to this operation and, prospectively, at the extent to which art is shaped by this collective activity. The book is thoroughly illustrated and updated with a new dialogue between Becker and